Tickets
nounPrinted or digital slips that grant entry, prove payment of a fare, or reserve a place.
How to spell tickets
7 letters · 2 syllables
How to pronounce tickets
Say the part in capitals loudest.
What does tickets mean?
- nounPrinted or digital slips that grant entry, prove payment of a fare, or reserve a place.
- nounOfficial notices issued for a traffic or parking offence, usually carrying a fine.
Tickets in a sentence
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She booked two tickets for the evening performance.
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He collected three parking tickets in a single week.
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The concert sold out before the cheaper tickets were released.
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Speeding tickets can add points to your licence.
Where does tickets come from?
Language of origin: French
The word ticket comes from the Old French estiquet or etiquet, meaning a little note or label, which itself derived from the verb estiquier, to stick or fix. The same root gave us the word etiquette, originally a small card listing the rules of conduct at a royal court. English adopted ticket in the late 1500s, first for a short written notice or certificate, and only later for the printed slip that admits you to an event or proves a fare has been paid. The plural tickets simply adds the regular -s ending, with no spelling change to the stem. Because the word travelled through French, the spelling keeps a hard -ck- and a single -t, which is the part writers occasionally second-guess.
How the word is built
- ticket (from Old French estiquet: a note or label)
- -s (plural)
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