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Spell Bee Word: Librarian


What does librarian mean?

Word: Librarian

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Librarian means a person who looks after a library and helps people find books.

How do you spell librarian?

Syllables: li - brar - i - an

Tricky part: Librarian grows out of library, so it keeps both r's.

Watch out for: librian, libarian

Memory tip: Library has two r's, and the person who works there keeps both of them.

Librarian in a sentence

Example 1: Our librarian lets each child take two books home.

Example 2: Ask the librarian where the animal books are kept.

Example 3: Our school librarian reads a story to us every Friday.

Fun Fact

India marks National Librarians' Day on 12 August, the birthday of S. R. Ranganathan, who is called the father of library science in India.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) magazeen
b) dictionery
c) encylopedia
d) librarian

Show answer

d) librarian. Dictionary, encyclopedia and magazine are the right spellings of the other three, so librarian is the answer.

Word Cookie

Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:

librar_a_

a) i, m
b) i, n
c) e, n
d) y, n

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b) i, n. The ending sounds like the end of Indian, and it is spelt the same way.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

nairbrali

a) librarian
b) lirbarian
c) libraiarn
d) librarain

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a) librarian. Unscramble the job of the person who works in a library.

Word Cookie

Find the misspelt word in the sentence:

Our class went to meet the new librarien on the first day of term.

a) first
b) librarien
c) class
d) term

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b) librarien. The vowel just before the last letter is a, not e.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a librarian stamp inside a book you borrow?

a) the price
b) the return date
c) a gold star
d) your photo

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b) the return date

2. A librarian will happily ____.

a) check your teeth
b) fix your bicycle
c) lend you a book
d) cut your hair

Show answer

c) lend you a book

Associated Words

Words that end in -ian: politician, electrician, magician, musician, amphibian, vegetarian

More words from this list

parakeet, sailing, theory, almost, bush, cooking, erupt, haircut

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