Meaning

1 senses

  1. (rare)To play the game of cricket.

    play cricket

Examples

87 sentences

  1. Tom is an excellent cricket player.

    Том — добрий гравець у крикет. — deniko

    ruТом — отличный игрок в крикет. — sharptoothed

    deTom ist ein hervorragender Kricketspieler. — al_ex_an_der

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  2. I don't know anything about cricket.

    Я нічого не знаю про крікет. — deniko

    ruЯ ничего не понимаю в крикете. — marafon

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  3. Baseball is different from cricket.

    Бейсбол відрізняється від крікету. — deniko

    ruБейсбол отличается от крикета. — odexed

    deBaseball ist anders als Cricket. — raggione

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  4. My uncle is an amateur cricket player.

    deMein Onkel spielt hobbymäßig Kricket. — Yorwba

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  5. Some people think that it's bad luck to kill a cricket.

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Origin

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).

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Forms

crickets, cricketing, cricketed, cricketed
Base formcricket · to cricket
3rd person singularcrickets
Present participlecricketing
Past simplecricketed
Past participlecricketed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theycricket
he, she, itcrickets

Past simpleLesson

all personscricketed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave cricketed
he, she, ithas cricketed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill cricket

Word family

1 related words
Relatedcricketer

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
crewB2crewmancribcricketercricketscrier
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