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Spell Bee Word: Airport


What does airport mean?

Word: Airport

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Airport means a place where aeroplanes take off and land, with buildings for passengers and their luggage.

Synonyms: airfield

How do you spell airport?

Syllables: air - port

Tricky part: The start is the plain word air, the same air you breathe. Children sometimes hear it as ear or aer and write those letters instead.

Watch out for: earport, aerport

Memory tip: Planes fly through the air, so the word starts with air, spelt just like the air around you.

Airport in a sentence

Example 1: We reached the airport two hours before our flight.

Example 2: The new airport has a long moving walkway.

Example 3: My uncle picked us up from Chennai airport.

Fun Fact

Every big airport has a three-letter code. Mumbai is BOM, Delhi is DEL and Chennai is MAA.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Makeup

Choose the correctly spelt compound word:

a) airport
b) airpourt
c) airporte
d) airpart

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a) airport. Airport joins two short words with no letters added or changed.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

airporrt

a) i
b) p
c) r
d) o

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c) r. The r in port comes once, just before the t.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

proirat

a) airport
b) airprot
c) airptor
d) airpotr

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a) airport. Find the word air in the pile, then use the four letters that are left.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) airport
b) runwey
c) pasenger
d) luggege

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a) airport. Passenger has two s's, luggage ends in age and runway ends in way; airport is right.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What would you find at an airport?

a) a bus depot
b) a runway
c) a lighthouse
d) a railway platform

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b) a runway

2. What do you show at the airport before you get on the plane?

a) a bus pass
b) a library card
c) a school diary
d) a boarding pass

Show answer

d) a boarding pass

Associated Words

transparentserenesoilsteadyshort
enormoussellworriedguiltcourage

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