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UK:**UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈwɪkɪt/US:USA pronunciation: IPA and respellingUSA pronunciation: IPA/ˈwɪkɪt/ ,USA pronunciation: respelling(wik′it)


WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026
wick•et /ˈwɪkɪt/USA pronunciation   n. [countable]
  1. a window or opening, often with a grating, as in a ticket office.
  2. Sporta small door or gate, esp. one beside or forming part of a larger one.
  3. (in croquet) a hoop or arch.
  4. Sport(in cricket) either of the two frameworks at which the bowler aims the ball.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
wick•et  (wik′it),USA pronunciation n. 
  1. a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a teller's cage in a bank, etc.
  2. Games[Croquet.]a hoop or arch.
  3. a turnstile in an entrance.
  4. a small door or gate, esp. one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.
  5. Civil Engineeringa small gate by which a canal lock is emptied.
  6. Mechanical Engineeringa gate by which a flow of water is regulated, as to a waterwheel.
  7. [Cricket.]
    • either of the two frameworks, each consisting of three stumps with two bails in grooves across the tops, at which the bowler aims the ball.
    • the area between the wickets;
      the playing field.
    • one batsman's turn at the wicket.
    • the period during which two players bat together.
    • a batsman's inning that is not completed or not begun.
  8. British Terms to be on, have, or bat a sticky wicket, to be at or have a disadvantage.
  • Gmc; compare Middle Dutch wiket wicket, equivalent. to wik- (akin to Old English wīcan to yield; see weak) + -et noun, nominal suffix
  • Anglo-French; Old French guischet
  • Middle English wiket 1200–50

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
wicket /ˈwɪkɪt/ n
  1. a small door or gate, esp one that is near to or part of a larger one
  2. US a small window or opening in a door, esp one fitted with a grating or glass pane, used as a means of communication in a ticket office, bank, etc
  3. a small sluicegate, esp one in a canal lock gate or by a water wheel
    • either of two constructions, placed 22 yards apart, consisting of three pointed stumps stuck parallel in the ground with two wooden bails resting on top, at which the batter stands
    • the strip of ground between these
    • a batter's turn at batting or the period during which two batters bat
    • the act or instance of a batter being got out: the bowler took six wickets
  5. keep wicket ⇒ to act as a wicketkeeper
Etymology: 18th Century: from Old Northern French wiket; related to Old Norse vikja to move
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