Question 1 · Quick check
cricket
CEFRA1
/ˈkɹɪkɪt/
noun
Türkçe translations
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In plain English
- 01
noun
A sport in which teams hit a ball with a flat bat.
- 02
noun
A small jumping insect that makes a high sound.
Examples
I should like to join the cricket club.
Just as Japanese boys play baseball, so English boys play cricket.
At a glance
Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale
- Senses
- 5
- Parts of speech
- 1
- Citations
- 2
Also pronounced
- /ˈkrɪ(k).keʈ/
- /ˈkɹək.kət/
Deep Dive
noun
Extra meaningsA signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
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.
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
More examples
In contextJudge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living? Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.
Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob
Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]
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Origin
noun
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.