Smoking Meaning
/ˈsməʊkɪŋ/Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbpresent participle and gerund of smoke
adjGiving off smoke.
Sentence Examples
You should give up drinking and smoking.
You had better give up smoking for your health.
The law effectively bans smoking in all public places.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor explained that the main cause of his lung cancer was his daily habit of ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Public service announcements emphasize the serious health risks associated with long-term ____.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English smokynge, smokiende, from Old English smociende (“smoking”), from Proto-Germanic *smukōndz (“emitting smoke, smoking”), equivalent to smoke + -ing.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Yet had the whole train and all its bombs gone, had the engine crew merely jumped from the train and run as simple self-preservation would have suggested, or unhitched just the engine to make their escape faster, the whole town would have gone and most of the people with it, leaving just a smoking wasteland. Hundreds would have died."
— 2022 January 12, Benedict le Vay, “The heroes of Soham...”, in RAIL, number 948, page 43:
"He had the loudest voice of any drill sergeant, and seemed to enjoy the group smokings as well as the individual smokings."
— 2012, Montgomery J. Granger, Saving Grace at Guantanamo Bay: A Memoir of a Citizen Warrior:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The doctor explained that the main cause of his lung cancer was his daily habit of ____.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Public service announcements emphasize the serious health risks associated with long-term ____.