ticket

1. 1.

   a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)

   Broadercommercial document

   Narrowercommutation ticketplane ticketpasstransferrailroad tickettheater ticketbus ticketround-trip ticket
2. 2.

   a label written or printed on paper, cardboard, or plastic that is attached to something to indicate its owner, nature, price, etc.

   Synonymstag

   Broaderlabel

   Narrowerdog tagname tagprice tag
3. 3.

   a summons issued to an offender (especially to someone who violates a traffic regulation)

   Broadersummons

   Narrowerspeeding ticketparking ticket

   law

4. 4.

   a list of candidates nominated by a political party to run for election to public offices

   Synonymsslate

   Broaderlist
5. 5.

   the appropriate or desirable thing

   “this car could be just the ticket for a small family”

   Synonymsjust the ticket

   Broaderappropriateness

1. 1.

   issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty

   “I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street”

   “Move your car or else you will be ticketed!”

   Synonymsfine

   Broaderbook

   Narroweramerce
2. 2.

   provide with a ticket for passage or admission

   “Ticketed passengers can board now”

   Broadersupply

Other forms of ticket

plural

tickets·

past tense

ticketted·

present participle

ticketting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ticket

What does ticket mean?

ticket means "a commercial document showing that the holder is entitled to something (as to ride on public transportation or to enter a public entertainment)". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ticket?

ticket has 2 syllables: tic-ket. The stress falls on "tic". In IPA it is /ˈtɪkət/.

What is another word for ticket?

Close synonyms include tag, slate, just the ticket, fine. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ticket a common word?

ticket is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.