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Spell Bee Word: Brass


What does brass mean?

Word: Brass

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Brass means a shiny, yellow metal made by mixing copper and zinc. It is used for lamps, pots, bells and door handles.

How do you spell brass?

Syllables: brass

Tricky part: Brass ends with a double s. Children often stop after one s or add an e at the end.

Watch out for: brasse, brase

Memory tip: Make the end of brass hiss like a snake: two s's, sss.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. as bold as brass: not shy or afraid at all, sometimes too bold Example: "The little goat walked into the kitchen as bold as brass."

Brass in a sentence

Example 1: Nani polishes the brass lamp before Diwali.

Example 2: The temple bell is made of brass.

Example 3: Our door has a heavy brass handle.

Fun Fact

People call the most important officers in an army the top brass. Senior officers were once called brass hats, because of the gold-coloured trim on their caps.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) brass
b) bruss
c) braas
d) bress

Show answer

a) brass. Brass has one vowel, a single a.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct letter to form a word:

b_ass

a) w
b) r
c) d
d) l

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b) r. Brass opens with b and r together.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

sasbr

a) abrss
b) barss
c) brass
d) rbass

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c) brass. With the s's kept at the end, only one order of b, r and a makes the metal.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which musical instrument is usually made of brass?

a) a tabla
b) a trumpet
c) a dholak
d) a sitar

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b) a trumpet

2. If you leave a brass pot unpolished for months, it slowly ____.

a) turns bright and new
b) turns dull and dark
c) turns soft like clay
d) turns into gold

Show answer

b) turns dull and dark

Associated Words

Words that start with bra: branch, brain, bracelet, bray, bravery, brace

More words from this list

cooker, farmer, hand, merry, postman, shout, tired, alarm

Next steps

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