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Spell Bee Word: Great


What does great mean?

Word: Great

Part of Speech: Adjective

Meaning: Great means very good, or very big and important.

Synonyms: wonderful, huge

Antonyms: small, awful

Sounds like: grate (to rub food into thin bits)

How do you spell great?

Syllables: great

Tricky part: Here ea says ay, not ee as in eat. That is why children write grait, graet or mix it up with grate.

Watch out for: graet, grayt, greate

Memory tip: Great, break and steak are the odd ones out: their ea says ay. Take a great break.

Idioms and Phrases

  1. a great deal: a lot Example: "Grandma knows a great deal about plants."

Great in a sentence

Example 1: We had a great time at Grandma's house in the holidays.

Example 2: The Great Wall of China is very, very long.

Example 3: Ashoka was a great king of ancient India.

Fun Fact

The Great Indian Bustard is one of the heaviest flying birds in the world, and very few are left in the wild.

Practise the CREST Way

Sound Check

Which of the following words rhymes with great?

a) straight
b) street
c) grit
d) treat

Show answer

a) straight. Straight ends with the same ay-t sound, even though its letters look nothing like great.

Word Champ

Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?

great

a) rate
b) gear
c) greet
d) tag

Show answer

c) greet. Greet uses e twice, and great has a single e.

Spell Spies

Choose the misspelt word/s in the given sentence:

Our class did a great job in the sports day relley.

a) only relley
b) great and relley
c) sports and job
d) only class

Show answer

a) only relley. Relay is spelt r-e-l-a-y; great, class and sports are all correct.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. If your teacher says your drawing is great, she means it is ___.

a) not finished yet
b) very messy
c) really well done
d) too small to see

Show answer

c) really well done

2. Your great-grandmother is your ___.

a) grandmother's sister
b) grandmother's mother
c) father's cousin
d) mother's aunt

Show answer

b) grandmother's mother

Associated Words

Words that end in -eat: bleat, feat, defeat, repeat, pleat, neat

Related words on the Spell Bee lists: wonderful, huge, awful

More words from this list

lighten, peck, rust, still, twig, anthem, climber, dusty

Next steps

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