Translation
ticket, banknote
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Word origin
From Middle French billet, an alteration of bullette, a diminutive of bulle ('a sealed document'), from Latin bulla ('a seal, a rounded stud'). The sense of a small written slip broadened to the modern ticket and banknote. English took billet and bulletin from the same family.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- bulla
- English cognates
- bulletin, billet, bull
Grammar
Examples
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I bought two tickets for the seven o'clock train.
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He handed me a twenty-euro note without saying a word.
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Keep your ticket until you leave.
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The tickets for the concert sold out in an hour.
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She slipped a short note under the door.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 13, lesson 7: billet, lune, survivre and 7 more words.