ticket
pronunciation
How to pronounce ticket in British English:
UK [ˈtɪkɪt]
How to pronounce ticket in American English:
US [ˈtɪkɪt]
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- Noun:
- a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)
- a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)
- a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices
- the appropriate or desirable thing
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- Verb:
- issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty
- provide with a ticket for passage or admission
Word Origin
- ticket
- ticket: [16] Ticket was adapted from early modern French étiquet ‘ticket, label’, whose present-day descendant étiquette has given English etiquette. The etymological notion underlying étiquet was of ‘sticking’ a label on, for it was derived ultimately from the Old French verb estiquier ‘stick’, a borrowing from Middle Dutch steken ‘stick’ – to which English stick is related.=> etiquette, stick
- ticket (n.)
- 1520s, "short note or document," from a shortened form of Middle French etiquet "label, note," from Old French estiquette "a little note" (late 14c.), especially one affixed to a gate or wall as a public notice, literally "something stuck (up or on)," from estiquer "to affix, stick on, attach," from Frankish *stikkan, cognate with Old English stician "to pierce," from Proto-Germanic *stikken "to be stuck," stative form from PIE *steig- "to stick; pointed" (see stick (v.)). Meaning "card or piece of paper that gives its holder a right or privilege" is first recorded 1670s, probably developing from the sense of "certificate, license, permit." The political sense of "list of candidates put forward by a faction" has been used in American English since 1711. Meaning "official notification of offense" is from 1930. Big ticket item is from 1953. Slang the ticket "just the thing, what is expected" is recorded from 1838, perhaps with notion of a winning lottery ticket.
- ticket (v.)
- 1610s, "attach a ticket to, put a label on," from ticket (n.). Meaning "issue a (parking) ticket to" is from 1955. Related: Ticketed; ticketing.
Example
- 1. I 've caused much bother by lossing my ticket .
- 2. You show your ticket at the gate .
- 3. Advocates are starting to pressure police to ticket urban speeders .
- 4. Chaos broke out this week when a new system for online ticket sales at china rail became overwhelmed .
- 5. But I couldn 't get my hands on a ticket .