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Spell Bee Word: Canteen


What does canteen mean?

Word: Canteen

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Canteen means a room in a school, office or factory where people buy and eat meals.

Synonyms: cafeteria

How do you spell canteen?

Syllables: can - teen

Tricky part: The long ee sound at the end is written ee. Pupils sometimes put ea there, or end with ine.

Watch out for: cantean, cantine

Memory tip: Canteen finishes with the same ee as green and queen.

Canteen in a sentence

Example 1: Our school canteen sells hot dosas on Fridays.

Example 2: Papa eats lunch in the office canteen.

Example 3: The canteen gets very busy at break time.

Fun Fact

A canteen can also be a small flat bottle for water that hikers and campers carry.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tecnean

a) cantene
b) cnateen
c) caneten
d) canteen

Show answer

d) canteen. Keep the two e's side by side near the end: that rules out cantene and caneten, and cnateen cannot be said.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Dev and his friends had rajma rice in the conteen today.

a) rice
b) today
c) friends
d) conteen

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d) conteen. The first vowel is a short a, as in man.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

cantteen

a) e
b) a
c) n
d) t

Show answer

d) t. Only a single t is needed in the middle.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) sandwich
b) tiffin
c) kanteen
d) napkin

Show answer

c) kanteen. This word starts with c, not k. Tiffin, napkin and sandwich are fine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people usually do in a canteen?

a) eat a meal
b) borrow books
c) take a test
d) play football

Show answer

a) eat a meal

2. Who would you find serving food in a canteen?

a) a postman
b) a cook
c) a farmer
d) a pilot

Show answer

b) a cook

Associated Words

Words that end in -teen: nineteen, fifteen, thirteen, fourteen, seventeen, sixteen

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: cafeteria

More words from this list

dispute, ginger, inside, mittens, push, smash, travel, ahead

Next steps

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