What does jeweller mean?
Word: Jeweller
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Jeweller means a person who makes, repairs or sells rings, necklaces, bangles and other precious things to wear.
How do you spell jeweller?
Syllables: jew - el - ler
Tricky part: The ending is the hard part. American English writes it with one l, but British English, the standard for this exam, doubles it.
Watch out for: jewellar, jewellor
Memory tip: Picture a pair of earrings on the shop counter, hanging side by side like the two l's before the ending.
Jeweller in a sentence
Example 1: The jeweller in our market can fix a broken chain while you wait.
Example 2: Aunt Leela asked the jeweller to make her ring a little bigger.
Example 3: My grandfather worked as a jeweller in Jaipur for forty years.
Fun Fact
The word reached English through French about 700 years ago, but the craft is far older: gold and bead ornaments found at Indus Valley sites were made more than 4,000 years ago.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
j_w_ller
a) o, e
b) e, e
c) e, a
d) u, e
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b) e, e. Both gaps take an e, just as in the word jewel.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) jeweller
b) carpentar
c) mechanik
d) electrisian
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a) jeweller. Carpenter ends in er, electrician has cian, and mechanic ends in a plain c.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
eeljelwr
a) traveller
b) reveller
c) dweller
d) jeweller
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d) jeweller. Reveller and traveller both need a v, and dweller needs a d, but the jumble has neither.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The jeweller in Udaipur fixed the tiny clasp on my sister's silver anklet in five minuts.
a) jeweller
b) clasp
c) minuts
d) anklet
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c) minuts. Minutes keeps an e before the s.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A jeweller might be asked to ____.
a) set a ruby into a ring
b) paint the walls of a room
c) fix the brakes on a bicycle
d) bake a tray of biscuits
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a) set a ruby into a ring
2. A jeweller needs steady hands and sharp eyes mainly because ____.
a) the work is done outdoors
b) the shop opens early in the morning
c) the stones and wires are very small
d) most customers pay in cash
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c) the stones and wires are very small
