English Explanatory Dictionary

cricket

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
  2. In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
  3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
  4. An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
noun
  1. A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
  2. An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
  3. A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
verb
  1. To play the game of cricket.
noun
  1. A wooden footstool.
  2. A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɹɪk.ɪt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cricket.wav en-us-cricket.ogg en-au-cricket.ogg /krɪˈkɛʈ/

Word forms

cricket crickets crecket cricketing cricketed cracket

Etymology

From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin. Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.

Antonyms

not cricket

Derived words

ant cricket balm cricket balm-cricket bushcricket bush-cricket bush cricket cave cricket chirpy as a cricket cricket bird cricket flour cricket frog cricketless cricketlike cricket thief spider crotch crickets dune cricket fen cricket field cricket holy cricket house cricket Italian tree cricket Jerusalem cricket jiminy cricket king cricket merry as a cricket mole cricket moon cricket Mormon cricket narrow-winged tree cricket Otomí tree cricket saddle-backed bush cricket sand cricket snowy tree-cricket spring field cricket tree-cricket tree cricket) true cricket crickety backyard cricket cricketainment cricketana cricket ball cricket bat cricket chair cricketeer cricketer cricket field cricket ground cricketly cricket net cricket pitch cricket score cricket test cricket whites day/night cricket French cricket grade cricket Kanga cricket Kiwi cricket kwik cricket

Translations

ǃXóõ: ǀɢā̰hm ǀō̰hle Afrikaans: kriek Albanian: bulkth Amharic: ዋዝንቢት Arabic: جُدْجُد Arabic: صُرْصُر Arabic: صُرْصُور Arabic: صرصور Armenian: ճռիկ Assamese: উঁইচিৰিঙা Asturian: grillu Asturian: llorín Asturian: pedru Azerbaijani: sisəy Banjarese: jengkerék Basque: kilker Belarusian: цвырку́н Bulgarian: щуре́ц Burmese: ပုရစ် Catalan: grill Chamicuro: c̈ho'kota Cherokee: ᏔᎳᏚ Chinese Cantonese: 蟋蟀 Eastern Min Chinese: 蟋蟀 Hakka Chinese: 土狗仔 Chinese: 杜猴 Chinese Mandarin: 蟋蟀 Chittagonian: জিনি পুঁক Choctaw: shʋlontʋki Comanche: tuaahtaki Cornish: gryll Czech: cvrček Danish: fårekylling Dutch: krekel Emilian: gril Esperanto: grilo Estonian: kilk Faroese: veggjasmiður Faroese: veggjasmyril Finnish: sirkka French: grillon French: cri-cri French: criquet Galician: grilo Galician: ralo Galician: rilo Galician: corta Georgian: ჭრიჭინა German: Grille Greek: γρύλος Greek: τριζόνι Ancient Greek: γρύλλος
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