English Explanatory Dictionary

tobacco

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
  2. Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes, cigars, snuff, for smoking in pipes or for chewing.
  3. A variety of tobacco.
verb
  1. To indulge in tobacco; to smoke.
  2. To treat with tobacco.
name
  1. Two rivers in Michigan, United States.
  2. A township in Gladwin County, Michigan, probably named after one of the rivers.

Pronunciation

/təˈbæk.əʊ/ /təˈbæk.oʊ/ en-us-tobacco.ogg

Word forms

tobacco tobaccos tobaccoes tabacco tobaccoing tobaccoed

Etymology

Attested since 1588, borrowed from Spanish tabaco. The Spanish word could be from Arabic طُبَّاق (ṭubbāq, “Dittrichia viscosa”) or from a Caribbean language such as Kari'na or Taíno or multiple of them, from a word meaning "roll of tobacco leaves" or "a pipe for smoking tobacco," such as tabago (“tube for inhaling smoke or powdered intoxicating plants”).

Related words

baccy backy chop chop smoke

Derived words

antitobacco antitobaccoite Aztec tobacco big tobacco California rabbit tobacco chewing tobacco coyote tobacco green tobacco sickness heated tobacco Indian tobacco ladies' tobacco mountain tobacco native tobacco nigger tobacco nontobacco occabot Oriental tobacco protobacco Queen's tobacco-pipe rabbit tobacco sailor's tobacco teabacco tobaccanalian tobacciana tobacco beetle tobacco budworm Tobacco Caye tobacco dove tobacco dust juice tobaccoey tobaccofied tobacco-free tobacco heart tobacco hornworm tobaccoish tobaccoism tobaccoite tobacco juice tobaccoless tobaccolike tobacco lime tobaccoman tobacco mosaic tobacco moth tobacconalian tobacconist tobaccophile tobaccophobe tobacco pipe tobacco rattle Tobacco Road tobacco-roader tobacco-sick tobacco splitworm Tobacco State tobacco-stopper tobacco thrips tobacco water tobacco wireworm tomacco
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