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English

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *stogʰō?
Proto-Germanic *stakô
Old French estache
Proto-Italic *-āzi
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Latin -ereinflu.
Latin -āre
Old French -ier
Old French estachier
Middle French estacher
Middle French estiquier
Proto-Indo-European *-tós
Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
Latin -ittus
Old French -ete
Middle French -ette
Middle French estiquette fbor.
Middle Scots tikkatbor.
English ticket

    Borrowed from Middle Scots tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet m, estiquet m, and etiquette f, estiquette f (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier, estichier, estequier (“to attach, stick”), (compare Picard estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish *stikkjan, *stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic *stikaną, *stikōną, *staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). Doublet of etiquette. More at stick.

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    ticket (plural tickets)

    A ticket.
    1. A small document that acts as proof of something, often thereby granting the holder some ability.
      1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, sporting event, etc.
        I've got two tickets for the match on Saturday; want to come?
      2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation.
        train ticket   bus ticket   plane ticket
        You must show your ticket to the conductor.
      3. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
        Synonym: license / licence
      4. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
        lottery ticket   raffle ticket
        If I'd used my usual numbers, it would've been a winning ticket! Unlucky!
      5. A certificate of qualification as a ship's master, pilot, or other crew member.
        • 1942 July-August, T. F. Cameron, “How the Staff of a Railway is Recruited”, in Railway Magazine, page 207:
          The variety of the demands of the railways for staff is almost endless. They require men with master's tickets as dock masters and to command their steamships.
      6. (figurative) A solution to a problem; something that is needed in order to do something.
        That's the ticket.
        I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.
    2. A citation for a traffic violation.
    3. (usually technical support) A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled.
      • 2022 September 19, HarryBlank, “Beyond Repair”, in SCP Foundation‎[1], archived from the original on 15 September 2024:
        "Yeah." It was him, alright; if the world's weariest pair of workboots hadn't tipped her off, his world-weary voice certainly would have. "Where were you?"
        "My quarters. We've got a full ticket set today, and techs work best without oversight." Neither of these things was untrue, though the curation was more than a little dishonest.
        "Maybe yours do." Nascimbeni rolled out, back flat against a neon orange creeper, and sat up with an audible wince. "Mine fuck the dog."
    4. (politics, informal) A list of candidates for an election, or a particular theme to a candidate's manifesto.
      Joe has joined the party's ticket for the county elections.
      Joe will be running on an anti-crime ticket.
      • 2019 March 3, Simon van Zuylen-Wood, “When Did Everyone Become a Socialist?”, in New York Magazine‎[2], archived from the original on 28 September 2026:
        Candidates like Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders are no longer too precious to run on the Democratic ticket, though the proposals they suggest are so ambitious — like Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, and free public college — that they don’t feel like compromises at all.
      • 2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post‎[3], archived from the original on 30 March 2023:
        Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton
    5. (dated) A small note or notice.
      • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC:
        He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years, giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the school doors.
      • 1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:
        Under each coin was a circular ticket with written particulars of the specimen accompanying it.
    6. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
    7. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
    8. (dated) A visiting card.
      • 1878, Mrs. James Mason, All about Edith, page 124:
        I asked for a card, please, and she was quite put about, and said that she didn't require tickets to get in where she visited.
      • 1899, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading:
        "Mr. Gibbs come in just now," said Mrs. Blewett, "and left his ticket over the chimley. There 'tis. I haven't touched it."
    9. (law enforcement slang) A warrant.
      • 1999, Doug Most, Always in Our Hearts, page 148:
        […] I need a ticket, Bobby.” Agnor knew a ticket meant a search warrant.

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    Verb

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    ticket (third-person singular simple present tickets, present participle ticketing, simple past and past participle ticketed)

    1. To issue someone a ticket, as for travel or for a violation of a local or traffic law.
    2. To mark with a ticket.
      to ticket goods in a retail store

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    Dutch

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    Etymology

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    Borrowed from English ticket.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈtɪ.kət/
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    • Hyphenation: tic‧ket

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    ticket n or m (plural tickets, diminutive ticketje n)

    1. ticket or voucher

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    French

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    Etymology

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    English ticket, itself a borrowing from Middle French estiquet (thus a reborrowing). Doublet of étiquette

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    ticket m (plural tickets)

    1. ticket (admission, pass)
    2. receipt
    3. (North America) ticket (traffic citation)

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    Italian

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    Etymology

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    Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etichetta.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈti.ket/
    • Rhymes: -iket
    • Hyphenation: tìc‧ket

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    ticket m (invariable)

    1. prescription charge
    2. ticket stub (especially at a horserace)

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    • “ticket”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

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    Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-
    Proto-Indo-European *-ō
    Proto-Indo-European *stogʰō?
    Proto-Germanic *stakô
    Old French estache
    Proto-Italic *-āzi
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    Latin -ereinflu.
    Latin -āre
    Old French -ier
    Old French estachier
    Middle French estacher
    Middle French estiquier
    Proto-Indo-European *-tós
    Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
    Latin -ittus
    Old French -ete
    Middle French -ette
    Middle French estiquette fbor.
    Middle Scots tikkatbor.
    English ticketubor.
    Portuguese ticket

      Unadapted borrowing from English ticket.

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      Noun

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      ticket m (plural tickets)

      1. (Brazil) alternative form of tíquete

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      Etymology

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      Etymology tree
      Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ-
      Proto-Indo-European *-ō
      Proto-Indo-European *stogʰō?
      Proto-Germanic *stakô
      Old French estache
      Proto-Italic *-āzi
      ▲
      Latin -ereinflu.
      Latin -āre
      Old French -ier
      Old French estachier
      Middle French estacher
      Middle French estiquier
      Proto-Indo-European *-tós
      Proto-Italic *-tosder.?
      Latin -ittus
      Old French -ete
      Middle French -ette
      Middle French estiquette fbor.
      Middle Scots tikkatbor.
      English ticketubor.
      Spanish ticket

        Unadapted borrowing from English ticket. Doublet of etiqueta.

        Pronunciation

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        • IPA(key): /ˈtiket/ [ˈt̪i.ket̪]
        • IPA(key): /ˈtike/ [ˈt̪i.ke]
        • Syllabification: tic‧ket

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        ticket m (plural tickets)

        1. ticket
          • 2016 February 11, “Inauguración de la L9: el metro de Barcelona llega al aeropuerto”, in El Periódico‎[4], archived from the original on 31 October 2016:
            Si ha perdido el billete, ha viajado con títulos no válidos (como la T-10 o el billete sencillo) o simplemente se ha colado, el pasajero encontrará máquinas expendedoras dentro de las barreras para poder adquirir el tíquet correspondiente (el de 4,5 euros) y poder salir a la terminal.
            (please add an English translation of this quotation)
        2. receipt
        3. (Chile) checkmark
          Synonyms: (Mexico) palomita, (Spain) tic, tick, (Puerto Rico) cotejo

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        According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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        Noun

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        ticket

        1. definite singular of tick
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