cigar | meaning of cigar in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishTobaccocigarci‧gar /sɪˈɡɑː $ -ˈɡɑːr/ ●●○ noun [countable]    DFTa thick tube-shaped thing that people smoke, and which is made from tobacco leaves that have been rolled upExamples from the Corpuscigar• Careta reached under the sofa and took out a cigar box.• A former grocer from Rector Street, at twenty he had gone bankrupt trying to run a cigar store on Pearl Street.• In the fresh air I light my first cigar of the day, and break the match before I drop it.• He watched Sir Charles cut the tip off his cigar.• She cleared these things to one side and laid the cigar down in the middle of the dressing-table.• It was a genuine Empire product from Santanni, though the cigars it now contained were home-grown.Origin cigar (1700-1800) Spanish cigarro, probably from Mayan sik'ar “smoking”