smoking
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsməʊkɪŋ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsmoʊkɪŋ/
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Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊkɪŋ
VerbEdit
smoking
NounEdit
smoking (countable and uncountable, plural smokings)
- The burning and inhalation of tobacco.
- Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
- 2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior
- He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings.
- (by extension) The burning and inhalation of other substances, e.g. marijuana.
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AdjectiveEdit
smoking (comparative more smoking, superlative most smoking)
- Giving off smoke.
- (slang) Sexually attractive, usually referring to a woman.
- That woman is smoking!
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CzechEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
NounEdit
smoking m
DeclensionEdit
DanishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
smoking c (singular definite smokingen, plural indefinite smokinger)
InflectionEdit
common gender |
Singular | Plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | smoking | smokingen | smokinger | smokingerne |
genitive | smokings | smokingens | smokingers | smokingernes |
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English smoking jacket.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
smoking m (plural smokings)
Further readingEdit
- “smoking” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
ItalianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
NounEdit
smoking m (invariable)
Norwegian BokmålEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English smoking jacket
NounEdit
smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokinger, definite plural smokingene)
Norwegian NynorskEdit
EtymologyEdit
From English smoking jacket
NounEdit
smoking m (definite singular smokingen, indefinite plural smokingar, definite plural smokingane)
PolishEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
NounEdit
smoking m inan
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | smoking | smokingi |
genitive | smokingu | smokingów |
dative | smokingowi | smokingom |
accusative | smoking | smokingi |
instrumental | smokingiem | smokingami |
locative | smokingu | smokingach |
vocative | smokingu | smokingi |
PortugueseEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
NounEdit
smoking m (plural smokings)
- tuxedo (formal suit)
Serbo-CroatianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from French smoking, from English smoking jacket.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
smòking m (Cyrillic spelling смо̀кинг)
DeclensionEdit
singular | plural | |
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nominative | smoking | smokinzi |
genitive | smokinga | smokinga |
dative | smokingu | smokinzima |
accusative | smoking | smokinge |
vocative | smokinže / smokingu | smokinzi |
locative | smokingu | smokinzima |
instrumental | smokingom | smokinzima |