What does cheekbone mean?
Word: Cheekbone
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Cheekbone means one of the two hard ridges you can feel just below your eyes, on either side of your nose.
How do you spell cheekbone?
Syllables: cheek - bone
Tricky part: The ee sound at the start is spelt with two e's. Children often write ea, as in cheakbone, because beak and speak use that pair.
Watch out for: cheakbone, chekbone
Memory tip: Picture the two e's as a pair of eyes looking out from just above the spot this word names.
Cheekbone in a sentence
Example 1: The evening sun lit up Asha's cheekbones as she looked out of the window.
Example 2: The sculptor smoothed the clay to form the statue's cheekbones.
Example 3: When Dev laughs, his cheekbones lift and his eyes almost close.
Fun Fact
Doctors and scientists call the cheekbone the zygoma, a name from a Greek word linked to the yoke, the wooden bar that joins two oxen.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correctly spelt compound word:
a) cheekbone
b) tothbrush
c) sunglases
d) forhead
Show answer
a) cheekbone. Forehead keeps the e of fore, sunglasses has a double s, and toothbrush needs two o's.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
cheekb_n_
a) o,e
b) o,i
c) u,e
d) a,e
Show answer
a) o,e. Read it aloud: the long o sound here is spelt with o and a silent e at the end.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ebnkceheo
a) beckoned
b) checkout
c) cheekbone
d) chickens
Show answer
c) cheekbone. Three e's and no other vowel but o: beckoned has a d, checkout a u and chickens an i.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the incorrectly spelt word:
a) musle
b) skeleton
c) eyebrow
d) cheekbone
Show answer
a) musle. Muscle has a silent c after the s.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A cheekbone is part of the skeleton. Which of these is part of the skeleton too?
a) the eyelash
b) the jaw
c) the earlobe
d) the tongue
Show answer
b) the jaw
2. Grandpa says Ines has her mother's high cheekbones. What is he talking about?
a) the shape of her face
b) the way she walks
c) the sound of her voice
d) the colour of her eyes
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a) the shape of her face
