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Spell Bee Word: Citizen


What does citizen mean?

Word: Citizen

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Citizen means a person who belongs to a country by law, with rights and duties there; also someone who lives in a town or city.

Synonyms: resident

Antonyms: foreigner

How do you spell citizen?

Syllables: cit - i - zen

Tricky part: The c sounds like s, and the buzzing sound in the middle is a z, not an s.

Watch out for: sitizen, citisen

Memory tip: A citizen often lives in a city, and the two words begin with the same three letters.

Citizen in a sentence

Example 1: Every citizen should help keep the streets clean.

Example 2: A good citizen waits for the green light before crossing.

Example 3: As a citizen of Canada, Grandpa votes in every election.

Fun Fact

Citizen and city both come from the Latin civitas, which meant the people of a town or state.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) villiger
b) goverment
c) soldeir
d) citizen

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d) citizen. Citizen has a soft c and a z in the middle.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

zictine

a) citizne
b) citzien
c) citizen
d) citezin

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c) citizen. Start with the soft c and end with n; the z sits just after the middle.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

citizeen

a) z
b) i
c) e
d) n

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c) e. The last beat of citizen has one e.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Every citizen has the right to vote in the elecsion.

a) citizen
b) right
c) elecsion
d) vote

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c) elecsion. Election ends in tion, as in action. Citizen is spelt right here.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Good citizens ____.

a) follow the law
b) waste water
c) ignore signals
d) break queues

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a) follow the law

2. In most countries, a citizen can vote from the age of ____.

a) 18
b) 25
c) 16
d) 21

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a) 18

Associated Words

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: resident, foreigner

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