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Spell Bee Word: captain


Basic Details

Word: Captain

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: The leader of a team, or the person in charge of a ship or an aircraft.

Synonyms: leader, skipper, commander

How to Spell Captain

Syllables: cap - tain

Tricky part: The second part is tain, as in mountain, not ten, tin or tan. Many children also swap the letters to captian.

Watch out for: captin, capten, captian

Memory tip: The captain stood on the mountain: both words end in tain.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. captain of industry: a person who runs a large and successful business. Example: "Her grandfather was a captain of industry who built three textile mills in Surat."

Usage Examples

Example 1: Rohit was made captain of the under-12 football team.

Example 2: The captain announced that the plane would land in Chennai in twenty minutes.

Example 3: Our class captain collects the notebooks every Friday.

Fun Fact

Before a cricket match begins, the two captains walk out for the toss: one flips the coin and the other calls heads or tails.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word: captain

a) skipper
b) passenger
c) crew
d) follower

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a) skipper. A skipper is the person in charge of a ship or a team.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) leiutenant
b) navigater
c) expidition
d) captain

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d) captain. Lieutenant has ie after the l, navigator ends in or, and expedition has ped in the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

The capten of the ship ordered the crew to lower the lifeboats at once.

a) lifeboats
b) crew
c) ordered
d) capten

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d) capten. Captain needs ai in its last part.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tnaipac

a) captain
b) capital
c) contain
d) caption

Show answer

a) captain. Caption and contain each have an o, and capital has an l; only captain uses these seven letters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is in charge of an aeroplane during a flight?

a) the porter
b) the passenger
c) the captain
d) the cashier

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c) the captain

2. The plural of captain is ____.

a) captaens
b) captains
c) captainies
d) captaines

Show answer

b) captains

Associated Words

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strategyexperimentrepliedcampaignaccommodation

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