Synonyms for tobacco

Grammar : Noun

Spell : tuh-bak-oh

Phonetic Transcription : təˈbæk oʊ

Définition of tobacco

Origin : 1580s, from Spanish tabaco, in part from an Arawakan (probably Taino) language of the Caribbean, said to mean "a roll of tobacco leaves" (according to Las Casas, 1552) or "a kind of pipe for smoking tobacco" (according to Oviedo, 1535). Scholars of Caribbean languages lean toward Las Casas' explanation. But Spanish tabaco (also Italian tabacco) was a name of medicinal herbs from early 15c., from Arabic tabbaq, attested since 9c. as the name of various herbs. So the word may be a European one transferred to an American plant. The West Indian island of Tobago was said to have been named by Columbus in 1498 from Haitian tambaku "pipe," in reference to the native custom of smoking dried tobacco leaves [Room].
Cultivation in France began 1556 with an importation of seed by Andre Thevet; introduced in Spain 1558 by Francisco Fernandes. Tobacco Road as a mythical place representative of rural Southern U.S. poverty is from the title of Erskine Caldwell's 1932 novel.

noun smoking substance

Example sentences :

And now came the planters of Virginia, bringing their crops of tobacco.
Extract from : « Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Chip gurgled again, and drew the tobacco sack shut with his teeth.
Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower

Then he said, meekly, "Does your mother object to tobacco smoke, ma'am?"
Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various

Then with a sigh of satisfaction, he fumbled for his pipe and tobacco, and looked about him.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

For all indulgence in wine and coffee and tobacco you will have a bill to pay.
Extract from : « The Call of the Twentieth Century » by David Starr Jordan

Then it must be your honour that will give me the tea, and her ladyship that will give me the tobacco?
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

In his excitement the dominie had snapped the stem of his tobacco pipe in two.
Extract from : « Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates » by Howard Pyle

And aren't we to have the pipes and tobacco, after coming so far to-night?
Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 4 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth

A large boat then came off to us, and we filled her with tobacco the same evening.
Extract from : « Ned Myers » by James Fenimore Cooper

"Indeed, yes," I chanted, finding my pipe and tobacco pouch.
Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance

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