ticket

English

Etymology

From Old French estiquet, also estiquette. More at etiquette.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈtɪkɪt/

• Audio (US)

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• Audio (UK, "a ticket")

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• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Noun

ticket (plural tickets or tix)

A ticket.

1. A pass entitling the holder to admission to a show, concert, etc.
2. A pass entitling the holder to board a train, a bus, a plane, or other means of transportation
3. A citation for a traffic violation.
4. A permit to operate a machine on a construction site.
5. A service request, used to track complaints or requests that an issue be handled. (Generally Internet Service Provider related).
6. (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.

7. A solution to a problem; something that is needed.

   That's the ticket.

   I saw my first bike as my ticket to freedom.

   • 1884, Mark Twain, chapter 34, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ISBN 0-553-21079-3:

     "Here's the ticket. This hole's big enough for Jim to get through if we wrench off the board."

Derived terms

Terms derived from the noun "ticket"

automatic ticket sampling machine golden ticket have tickets on oneself

lottery ticket one-way ticket that's the ticket ticket machine

write one's own ticket

Translations

admission to entertainment

• Albanian: biletë (sq) f
• Arabic: تذكرة (ar) (tadhkira) f
• Armenian: տոմս (hy) (toms)
• Central Melanau: tiket
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 票 (cmn) (piào), 券 (cmn) (quàn)

• Crimean Tatar: bilet
• Czech: lístek (cs) m, vstupenka (cs) f
• Danish: billet (da) c
• Dutch: kaartje (nl), ticket (nl)
• Esperanto: bileto (eo)
• Faroese: atgongumerki (fo) n
• Finnish: pääsylippu (fi), lippu (fi)
• French: billet (fr) m
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Ticket (de) n, Karte (de) f, Eintrittskarte (de) f, Schein (de) m
• Greek: εισιτήριο (el) (eisitírio) n
• Greenlandic: biletti (kl)
• Guernésiais: titchet m

• Hebrew: כרטיס (he) (kartís) m
• Hungarian: jegy (hu)
• Italian: biglietto (it) m
• Japanese: 券 (ja) (ken), チケット (ja) (chiketto), 切符 (ja) (きっぷ, kippu)
• Jèrriais: titchet m
• Luxembourgish: Billjee (lb) m
• Macedonian: билет (mk) (bilét) m, карта (mk) (kárta) f
• Malay: tiket (ms)
• Norwegian: billett (no) m
• Polish: bilet (pl) m
• Portuguese: bilhete (pt) m, ingresso (pt) m
• Romanian: bilet (ro) n
• Russian: билет (ru) (bilét) m
• Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid (gd) f
• Slovak: vstupenka (sk) f
• Spanish: entrada (es) f
• Swedish: biljett (sv) c
• Turkish: bilet (tr)

pass for transportation

• Albanian: biletë (sq) f
• Armenian: տոմս (hy) (toms)
• Central Melanau: tiket
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (plane) 機票 (cmn), 机票 (cmn) (jīpiào), (bus, train) 車票 (cmn), 车票 (cmn) (chēpiào)

• Crimean Tatar: bilet
• Czech: lístek (cs) m
• Danish: billet (da) c
• Dutch: ticket (nl)
• Faroese: ferðaseðil (fo) m
• Finnish: matkalippu (fi), lippu (fi)
• French: billet (fr) m (for plane, train), ticket (fr) m (for bus, underground)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Fahrkarte (de) f, Fahrschein (de) m, Ticket (de) n, (Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, obsolete in Germany) Billett (de) n, (rare) Billet (de) n, Fahrausweis (de) m
• Greek: εισιτήριο (el) (eisitírio) n
• Greenlandic: biletti (kl)
• Guernésiais: titchet m
• Hebrew: כרטיס (he) (kartís) m, כרטיסייה (he) (kartisiyá) f
• Hindi: टिकट (hi) (ṭikaṭ) m and f
• Hungarian: jegy (hu)

• Icelandic: farmiði (is) m
• Japanese: 切符 (ja) (きっぷ, kippu)
• Jèrriais: titchet m
• Korean: 티켓 (ko) (tiket)
• Lithuanian: bilietas (lt) m
• Macedonian: билет (mk) (bilét) m, карта (mk) (kárta) f
• Malay: tiket (ms)
• Norwegian: billett (no) m
• Persian: بلیط (fa) (belit), بلیت (fa) (belit)
• Polish: bilet (pl) m
• Portuguese: bilhete (pt) m, passagem (pt) f
• Romanian: bilet (ro) n
• Russian: билет (ru) (bilét) m
• Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid (gd) f
• Slovak: lístok (sk) m
• Spanish: pasaje (es) f, billete (es) m
• Swedish: biljett (sv) c
• Turkish: bilet (tr)
• Ukrainian: квиток (uk) (kvytók) m
• Urdu: ٹکٹ (ur) (ṭikaṭ) m and f

traffic citation

• Danish: bøde (da) c
• Dutch: bekeuring (nl)
• Faroese: bót (fo) f
• Finnish: sakkolappu (fi)
• French: contravention (fr) f, amende (fr) f, (slang) prune (fr) f, (Quebec) ticket (fr) m
• German: Strafzettel (de) m, Ticket (de) n
• Japanese: 違反切符 (ja) (ihan-kippu)
• Macedonian: казна (mk) (kázna) f

• Norwegian: bot (no) m and f
• Polish: mandat (pl) m
• Portuguese: multa (pt) f
• Romanian: amendă (ro) f, amendare contravențională (ro) f, cupon de amendă (ro)
• Russian: квитанция (ru) (kvitáncija) f, купон (ru) (kupón) m
• Spanish: parte (es) f, multa (es) f
• Swedish: bot (sv) c

permit to operate machine

• Polish: licencja (pl) f

informal: list of candidates

• Finnish: lista (fi)

• Polish: lista wyborcza (pl) f, punkt programu wyborczego

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Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: bileto, veturbileto, irbileto, kandidataro, prezindiko
• Italian: biglietto m (1,2), multa f, contravvenzione f (3)
• Korean: 표 (pyo)
• Portuguese: bilhete m

• Serbo-Croatian: ulaznica
• Slovak: vstupenka f (1), lístok m (2), pokuta f (3)
• Spanish: boleto m, tique, tiquete m (Costa Rica)

See also

• Ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ticket in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Verb

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.

Derived terms

• ticket off

Translations

to issue someone a ticket

• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi) (for travel), sakottaa (fi) (for traffic violation)
• Japanese: 切符を切る (ja) (kippu wo kiru)
• Macedonian: издава билет/карта (ízdava bilét/kárta) (for travel), казнува (mk) (káznuva) (for traffic violation)

• Russian: обилетить (ru) (obilétit')

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Pronunciation

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Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

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

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Etymology

English

Noun

ticket m (invariable)

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

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Noun

ticket

1. definite singular of tick