Other forms: tickets
A ticket is the small paper or code that proves you paid. A train ticket, buy a ticket, ticket office.
It is proof of purchase and permission to travel or enter, and it is increasingly a code on a phone rather than a piece of card. A ticket is also a parking or speeding fine — got a ticket — and in America the list of a party's candidates: the Republican ticket. Note just the ticket, meaning exactly what was needed; and that a ticket in support work is a logged request.
1nounticketThe paper or code that proves you paid.
“Show your ticket to the driver when you get on the bus.”
2nounparkingA parking or speeding fine.
“I got a parking ticket because I stayed ten minutes too long.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
ticket is a proof of payment.
Middle French etiquet meant a label, from a verb meaning to stick — a label was stuck on. Etiquette is the same word, from the card of rules handed out at court.
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)teyg- — to be sharp, to stab
Proto-Germanic
*stikaną
Frankish
*stikkjan
Old French
estechier — to attach, stick
Middle French
etiquet
gmw-msc
tikkat
English, today
ticket
Built from
gmw-msc tikkat, tikket, from Middle French etiquet, estiquet, and etiquette, estiquette (“a bill, note, label, ticket”), from Old French estechier (“to attach, stick”), (compare pcd estiquier (“to stick, pierce”)), from Frankish stikkjan, stekan (“to stick, pierce, sting”), from Proto-Germanic stikaną, stikōną, staikijaną (“to be sharp, pierce, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European (s)teyg- (“to be sharp, to stab”). a doublet of etiquette. More at stick.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA