What does beautician mean?
Word: Beautician
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Beautician means a person whose job is to care for people's skin, hair and nails, for example by giving facials.
How do you spell beautician?
Syllables: beau - ti - cian
Tricky part: The opening sound is spelt eau, the three vowels you see in beauty. Many pupils write it as bu or beu and lose a vowel.
Watch out for: butician, beutician
Memory tip: Start it exactly as beauty starts: b, then e, a and u together, a group English took from French.
Beautician in a sentence
Example 1: My aunt trained as a beautician and now runs a small salon in Lucknow.
Example 2: The beautician gently applied henna on the bride's hands.
Example 3: Before the school play, a beautician helped the actors with their make-up.
Fun Fact
The word is only about a hundred years old: it was first recorded in the United States in the 1920s, when beauty salons were becoming popular.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
beauti_i_n
a) s, e
b) c, e
c) c, a
d) s, a
Show answer
c) c, a. Jobs such as magician and musician end the same way, with c and then ian.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
beauttician
a) i
b) t
c) u
d) c
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b) t. There is only one t in this word, straight after the opening vowels.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ticanaebiu
a) beautifying
b) beautified
c) beautifully
d) beautician
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d) beautician. The other three all need an f, and the jumble has none.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) carpenter
b) plumber
c) beautician
d) librarien
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d) librarien. Librarian keeps the ar of library before its ending.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Where would you most likely find a beautician at work?
a) on a farm
b) in a salon
c) in a library
d) in a bank
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b) in a salon
2. Which task is part of a beautician's job?
a) teaching maths
b) shaping someone's eyebrows
c) fixing a car engine
d) repairing roads
Show answer
b) shaping someone's eyebrows
