ticket

See also: Ticket

English

Etymology

From Middle English ticket, from Old 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 *stikkan, *stikjan (“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.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪkɪt/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Audio (UK, "a ticket"):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪkɪt

Noun

ticket (plural tickets or (informal) 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 technical support 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, in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, →ISBN:

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

8. (dated) A little note or notice.
   • (Can we date this quote by Fuller and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     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.

9. (dated) A tradesman's bill or account (hence the phrase on ticket and eventually on tick).
   • (Can we date this quote by J. Cotgrave and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     Your courtier is mad to take up silks and velvets / On ticket for his mistress.

10. A label affixed to goods to show their price or description.
11. A certificate or token of a share in a lottery or other scheme for distributing money, goods, etc.
12. (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."

Derived terms

• airline ticket
• air ticket
• automatic ticket sampling machine
• flight ticket
• golden ticket
• have tickets on oneself
• lottery ticket
• one-way ticket
• plane ticket
• platform ticket
• return ticket
• season ticket
• that's the ticket
• ticket barrier
• ticket gate
• ticket hall
• ticket-holder
• ticket inspector
• ticket machine
• ticket office
• write one's own ticket

 

Translations

admission to entertainment

• Albanian: biletë (sq) f
• Amharic: ቲኬት (tiket)
• Arabic: تَذْكِرَة f (taḏkira)

  Egyptian Arabic: تذكرة f (tazkira)

• Armenian: տոմս (hy) (toms)
• Assamese: টিকেট (tiket)
• Azerbaijani: bilet (az)
• Belarusian: біле́т m (biljét)
• Bengali: টিকিট (ṭikiṭ)
• Bulgarian: биле́т m (bilét)
• Burmese: လက်မှတ် (my) (lakhmat)
• Catalan: bitllet (ca) m
• Central Melanau: tiket
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 飛／飞 (yue) (fei¹)

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

• Crimean Tatar: bilet
• Czech: lístek (cs) m, vstupenka (cs) f
• Danish: billet (da) c
• Dutch: kaartje (nl), ticket (nl)
• Esperanto: bileto
• Estonian: pilet (et)
• Faroese: atgongumerki n
• Finnish: pääsylippu (fi), lippu (fi)
• French: billet (fr) m
• Georgian: ბილეთი (ka) (bileti)
• German: Ticket (de) n, Karte (de) f, Eintrittskarte (de) f, Schein (de) m
• Greek: εισιτήριο (el) n (eisitírio)
• Greenlandic: biletti
• Hebrew: כַּרְטִיס (he) m (kartís)
• Hindi: टिकट (hi) m (ṭikaṭ)
• Hungarian: jegy (hu)
• Icelandic: miði (is) m
• Indonesian: karcis (id), tiket (id)
• Irish: ticéad m
• Italian: biglietto (it) m
• Japanese: 券 (ja) (けん, ken), チケット (chiketto), 切符 (ja) (きっぷ, kippu)
• Kazakh: билет (kk) (bilet)
• Korean: 표 (ko) (pyo), 티켓 (ko) (tiket)
• Kyrgyz: билет (ky) (bilet)
• Lao: ຕົວ (tūa)
• Latvian: biļete f
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• Lithuanian: bilietas m
• Luxembourgish: Billjee m
• Macedonian: биле́т m (bilét), ка́рта f (kárta)
• Malay: tiket
• Maori: tīketi
• Nepali: टिकट (ne) m (ṭikaṭ)
• Norman: titchet m (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: billett (no) m

  Nynorsk: billett m

• Oriya: ଟିକଟ (or) (ṭikaṭa)
• Pashto: بلېط m (belét)
• Persian: بلیت (fa) (belit), بلیط (fa) (belit)
• Polish: bilet (pl) m
• Portuguese: bilhete (pt) m, ingresso (pt) m
• Romanian: bilet (ro) n
• Russian: биле́т (ru) m (bilét)
• Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: улазница f

  Roman: ulaznica (sh) f

• Slovak: vstupenka f
• Slovene: vstopnica (sl) f
• Spanish: entrada (es) f
• Swedish: biljett (sv) c
• Tajik: билет (bilet)
• Thai: ตั๋ว (th) (dtǔua), บัตร (th) (bàt)
• Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se), ཊི་ཀ་སི (ṭi ka si)
• Tigrinya: ቲከት (tikät)
• Turkish: bilet (tr)
• Turkmen: bilet (tk)
• Ukrainian: квито́к (uk) m (kvytók), біле́т (uk) m (bilét)
• Urdu: ٹکٹ m (ṭikaṭ)
• Uyghur: بېلەت (bëlet)
• Uzbek: bilet (uz)
• Vietnamese: vé (vi)
• Welsh: tocyn (cy), tocynnau (cy) pl
• Westrobothnian:
• Yiddish: קאַרטע f (karte)

pass for transportation

• Afrikaans: kaartjie
• Albanian: biletë (sq) f
• Amharic: ቲኬት (tiket)
• Arabic: تَذْكِرَة f (taḏkira)
• Armenian: տոմս (hy) (toms)
• Assamese: টিকেট (tiket)
• Azerbaijani: bilet (az)
• Belarusian: біле́т m (biljét)
• Bengali: টিকেট (ṭikeṭ)
• Bulgarian: биле́т m (bilét)
• Burmese: လက်မှတ် (my) (lakhmat)
• Central Melanau: tiket
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: (general) 飛／飞 (yue) (fei¹); (plane) 機票／机票 (gei¹ piu³); (bus, train) 車飛／车飞 (ce¹ fei¹); (marine vessel) 船飛／船飞 (syun⁴ fei¹)

  Mandarin: (general) 票; (plane) 機票／机票 (zh) (jīpiào), 机票 (zh) (jīpiào); (bus, train) 車票／车票 (zh) (chēpiào), 车票 (zh) (chēpiào); (marine vessel) 船票 (zh) (chuánpiào)

• Crimean Tatar: bilet
• Czech: lístek (cs) m
• Danish: billet (da) c
• Dutch: kaartje (nl), ticket (nl)
• Estonian: pilet (et)
• Faroese: ferðaseðil m
• Finnish: matkalippu (fi), lippu (fi)
• French: (for plane, train) billet (fr) m, (for bus, underground) ticket (fr) m
• Georgian: ბილეთი (ka) (bileti)
• German: Fahrkarte (de) f, Fahrschein (de) m, Ticket (de) n, (Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein, obsolete in Germany) Billett (de) n, (rare) Billet (de) n, Fahrausweis m
• Greek: εισιτήριο (el) n (eisitírio)
• Greenlandic: biletti
• Hebrew: כַּרְטִיס (he) m (kartís), כרטיסייה f (kartisiyá)
• Hindi: टिकट (hi) m or f (ṭikaṭ)
• Hungarian: jegy (hu)
• Icelandic: farmiði (is) m
• Indonesian: tiket (id)
• Irish: ticéad m
• Italian: biglietto (it) m
• Japanese: 切符 (ja) (きっぷ, kippu)
• Kazakh: билет (kk) (bilet)
• Khmer: សំបុត្រ (km) (sɑmbot)
• Korean: 티켓 (ko) (tiket), 표 (ko) (pyo)
• Kyrgyz: билет (ky) (bilet)
• Lao: ຕົວ (tūa)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latvian: biļete f
• Lithuanian: bilietas m
• Macedonian: биле́т m (bilét), ка́рта f (kárta)
• Malay: tiket
• Maltese: biljett m
• Maori: tīketi
• Mongolian: тасалбар (mn) (tasalbar), билет (mn) (bilet)
• Norman: titchet m (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: billett (no) m

  Nynorsk: billett m

• Oriya: ଟିକଟ (or) (ṭikaṭ)
• Pashto: بلېط m (belét)
• Persian: بلیط (fa) (belit), بلیت (fa) (belit)
• Polish: bilet (pl) m
• Portuguese: bilhete (pt) m, passagem (pt) f
• Romanian: bilet (ro) n
• Russian: биле́т (ru) m (bilét)
• Scottish Gaelic: tiogaid f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: улазница f

  Roman: ulaznica (sh) f

• Slovak: lístok (sk) m
• Slovene: vozovnica f
• Spanish: pasaje (es) f, billete (es) m, boleto (es) m
• Swedish: biljett (sv) c
• Tajik: билет (bilet)
• Thai: ตั๋ว (th) (dtǔua)
• Tibetan: སྤ་སེ (spa se), ཊི་ཀ་སི (ṭi ka si)
• Turkish: bilet (tr)
• Turkmen: bilet (tk)
• Ukrainian: квито́к (uk) m (kvytók), біле́т (uk) m (bilét)
• Urdu: ٹکٹ m or f (ṭikaṭ)
• Uyghur: بېلەت (bëlet)
• Uzbek: bilet (uz)
• Vietnamese: vé (vi)
• Welsh: tocyn (cy) m, tocynnau (cy) m pl
• Westrobothnian:
• Yiddish: בילעט (bilet), קאַרטע f (karte)

traffic citation

• Bulgarian: квитанция (bg) m (kvitancija)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 告票 (gou³ piu³), 罰單／罚单 (fat⁶ daan¹)

  Mandarin: 告票 (zh) (gàopiào), 罰單／罚单 (zh) (fádān)

• Danish: bøde c
• Dutch: bekeuring (nl)
• Faroese: bót 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
• Greek: κλήση τροχαίας f (klísi trochaías)
• Irish: ticéad páirceála m
• Japanese: 違反切符 (ihan-kippu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: казна f (kazna)
• Maltese: ċitazzjoni m
• Norwegian: bot (no) m or f
• Polish: mandat (pl) m
• Portuguese: multa (pt) f
• Romanian: amendă (ro) f, amendare contravențională f, cupon de amendă
• Russian: квита́нция (ru) f (kvitáncija), купо́н (ru) m (kupón)
• Spanish: parte (es) f, multa (es) f
• Swedish: bot (sv) c

permit to operate machine

• Bulgarian: разрешително (bg) m (razrešitelno)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 牌 (yue), 牌照 (paai⁴ ziu³), 執照／执照 (zap¹ ziu³)

  Mandarin: 牌照 (zh) (páizhào), 執照／执照 (zh) (zhízhào)

• Maori: raihana (mi)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: førerkort (no) n

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: licencja (pl) f

informal: list of candidates

• Finnish: lista (fi)
• Persian: نامزدنامه (fa) (nâmzad-nâme)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Polish: lista wyborcza f, punkt programu wyborczego

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Esperanto: ^{(please verify)} bileto, ^{(please verify)} veturbileto, ^{(please verify)} irbileto, ^{(please verify)} kandidataro, ^{(please verify)} prezindiko
• Italian: (1,2) ^{(please verify)} biglietto (it) m, ^{(please verify)} multa (it) f, (3) ^{(please verify)} contravvenzione (it) f
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 표 (ko) (pyo)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} ulaznica (sh)
• Slovak: (1) ^{(please verify)} vstupenka f, (2) ^{(please verify)} lístok (sk) m, (3) ^{(please verify)} pokuta f
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} boleto (es) m, ^{(please verify)} tique (es), (Costa Rica) ^{(please verify)} tiquete m

See also

• ticket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Descendants

• Tibetan: ཊི་ཀ་སི (ṭi ka si)

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.
2. To mark with a ticket.

   to ticket goods in a retail store

Derived terms

• ticket off

Translations

to issue someone a ticket

• Chinese: 發告票／发告票 (zh), 開罰單／开罚单 (zh)
• Finnish: kirjoittaa (fi) (for travel), sakottaa (fi) (for traffic violation)
• Japanese: 切符を切る (kippu o kiru)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Macedonian: издава биле́т (izdava bilét), издава карта (izdava karta) (for travel), казнува (kaznuva) (for traffic violation)
• Russian: обиле́тить (ru) (obilétitʹ)

Anagrams

• ktetic

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɪ.kət/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Hyphenation: tic‧ket

Noun

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

1. ticket or voucher

Derived terms

• vliegticket

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ti.kɛ/

• audio:

  (file)

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

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

Further reading

• “ticket”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Etymology

From English

Noun

ticket m (uncountable)

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

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Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English ticket.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃi.ket͡ʃ/

Noun

ticket m (plural s)

1. ticket (slip entitling the holder to something)

Synonyms

• bilhete

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Spanish

Etymology

From English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiked/ [ˈt̪i.keð̞]

Noun

ticket m (plural tickets)

1. receipt

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Swedish

Noun

ticket

1. (deprecated template usage) definite singular of tick