cricket
/ˈkɹɪkɪt/
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Scotland/ˈkɾɪkɪt/
cricket noun: an insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
Noun (1)
cricket (plural crickets)
- An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
- A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
- An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
Noun (2)
cricket (uncountable)
- A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
- Look, that's a lovely sound, isn't it? The bat against the ball. Very English. Oh, yes, long summer afternoons spent in peace and harmony. I always say that, if Jesus had played a sport, I'm sure it would have been cricket.1999 September 12, Anthony Horowitz et al., “Dead Man's Eleven”, in Midsomer Murders
- An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
- Robbins went on, "Henry wouldn't do anything that wasn't cricket. Me, I was raised in a river ward and I'm not bothered by niceties. […]1954, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, volume 7, page 81
- Antonyms:
- not cricket
- A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
Verb
cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)
- To play the game of cricket.
- Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
Bannerman: By cricketing, your Worship.1891 May 27, "A Cricketer in Low Circumstances", The Evening News (Sydney); cited in "What do we know about the first Test cricketer?", ESPNcricinfo, 7 August 2016
- Judge: Your family is in destitute circumstances. How do you get your living?
Noun (3)
cricket (plural crickets)
- A wooden footstool.
- Heawe’er I pood o Cricket, on keaw’rt meh deawn ith Nook, o side oth' Hob1746, Tim Bobbin, A View of the Lancashire Dialect; by Way of Dialogue, Manchester: Josehp Harrop, pages 31 in the 6th edition 1757, 13–14 in the 1797 edition
- A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
cricket meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
cricket in Hindi
- insect
- झींगुर jhīṅgur, झीँगुर jhī̃gur
- game
- क्रिकेट krikeṭ, वल्लकन्दुक vallakanduk, गेंद-बल्ला gend-ballā
cricket in Tamil
- game
- கிரிக்கெட் kirikkeṭ, மட்டைப்பந்து maṭṭaippantu
cricket in Marathi
- insect
- रात्रकिडा rātrakiḍā
- game
- क्रिकेट krikeṭ
cricket in Urdu
- insect
- جھینگر jhīṅgur
- game
- کرکٹ krikiṭ
More languagesFewer languages
- cricket in Bengali
- ক্রিকেট krikeṭ
- cricket in Telugu
- యిలకోడి yilakōḍi, కీచురాయి kīcurāyi, క్రికెట్ krikeṭ
- cricket in Malayalam
- ചീവീട് cīvīṭŭ, മണ്ണട്ട maṇṇaṭṭa, ക്രിക്കറ്റ് krikkaṟṟŭ
- cricket in Kannada
- ಕ್ರಿಕೆಟ್ krikeṭ
- cricket in Punjabi
- ਝੀਂਗਰ jhīṅgar, ਕ੍ਰਿਕਟ krikaṭ
- cricket in Gujarati
- ક્રિકેટ krikeṭ
- cricket in Odia
- କ୍ରିକେଟ krikeṭa
- cricket in Sanskrit
- फालका phālakā, क्रिकेट्-क्रीडा krikeṭ-krīḍā, वल्लकन्दुकः vallakandukaḥ
- cricket in Sinhala
- ක්රිකට් krikaṭ
- cricket in Assamese
- উঁইচিৰিঙা ũisiriṅa, ক্ৰিকেট খেল kriket khel, ক্ৰিকেট kriket
- cricket in Nepali
- क्रिकेट krikeṭ
- cricket in Pashto
- کرکټ krikiṭ
- cricket in Tagalog
- kerwe, kuliglig-lupa, kriket
- cricket in Arabic
- جُدْجُد judjud, صُرْصُر ṣurṣur, صُرْصُور ṣurṣūr, كْرِيكِت krikit
- cricket in Malay
- kriket
- cricket in Persian
- جیرجیرک jirjirak, کِرِکِت kirikit, کریکت kriket
- cricket in Thai
- จิ้งหรีด jîng-rìit, คริกเก็ต krík-gèt
- cricket in Vietnamese
- dế, crích-kê, bóng gậy
- cricket in Myanmar
- ပုရစ် pu.rac, ကရစ်ကက် ka.rackak
Examples of cricket in a sentence
- The cat had cornered a cricket between the sofa and the television stand.
- He called curtains on his double decade cricket career on Tuesday.
- After being abroad for a decade, when he came back he rekindled his obsession with cricket.
Antonyms of cricket
Forms of cricket
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | crickets |
| alternative form | cracket |
| alternative form (archaic, dialectal) | crecket |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | crickets |
| present participle | cricketing |
| past participle | cricketed |
| past | cricketed |
Origin of cricket
From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin. Compare Dutch kriek (“cricket”), Middle Dutch krikel, criekel, crekel (“cricket”) (with diminituve -el), Middle Low German krikel, krekel (“cricket”), German Kreckel (“cricket”). More at creak.
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
Words formed from cricket
- ant cricket
- balm cricket
- balm-cricket
- bushcricket
- bush-cricket
- bush cricket
- cave cricket
- chirpy as a cricket
- cricket bird
- cricket flour
- cricket frog
- cricketless
- cricketlike
- cricket thief spider
- crotch crickets
- dune cricket
- fen cricket
- field cricket
- holy cricket
- house cricket
- Italian tree cricket
- Jerusalem cricket
- jiminy cricket
- king cricket
- merry as a cricket
- mole cricket
- moon cricket
- Mormon cricket
- narrow-winged tree cricket
- Otomí tree cricket
- saddle-backed bush cricket
- sand cricket
- snowy tree-cricket
- spring field cricket
- tree-cricket
- tree cricket)
- true cricket
- crickety
- backyard cricket
- cricketainment
- cricketana
- cricket ball
- cricket bat
- cricket chair
- cricketeer
- cricketer
- cricket field
- cricket ground
- cricketly
- cricket net
- cricket pitch
- cricket score
- cricket test
- cricket whites
- day/night cricket
- French cricket
- grade cricket
- Kanga cricket
- Kiwi cricket
- kwik cricket
Phrases with cricket
- not cricket
- pub cricket
- cricket bats
- cricket nets
- Test cricket
- cricket balls
- cricket tests
- cricket chairs
- cricket circle
- cricket fields
- cricket scores
- pencil cricket
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Words that rhyme with cricket
Questions about cricket
- What does cricket mean?
- Cricket means an insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
- What is cricket in Hindi?
- Cricket in Hindi is झींगुर (jhīṅgur), झीँगुर (jhī̃gur), क्रिकेट (krikeṭ). See Cricket meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is cricket?
- Cricket can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cricket?
- Cricket is pronounced /ˈkɹɪkɪt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of cricket?
- The plural of cricket is crickets.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cricket (page history and authors); क्रिकेट (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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