What does loyalty mean?
Word: Loyalty
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Loyalty means the quality of staying faithful and true to someone or something.
Synonyms: faithfulness, devotion
Antonyms: disloyalty, betrayal
How do you spell loyalty?
Syllables: loy - al - ty
Tricky part: The first sound is spelt oy, as in boy and toy, not oi, so loialty is a common slip.
Watch out for: loylty, loialty, loyalti
Memory tip: Loyalty starts with the same oy as boy and toy: a boy who stays true to his friends shares his toy.
Loyalty in a sentence
Example 1: The soldiers were praised for their loyalty to the country.
Example 2: A dog's loyalty to its family can last its whole life.
Example 3: The old watchman's loyalty to the family lasted forty years.
Fun Fact
Hachiko, an Akita dog in Japan, went to Shibuya station every day for about nine years after his owner died. A statue of him stands there today.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correct suffix to make a new word:
loyal
a) tee
b) ty
c) tey
d) ity
Show answer
b) ty. The ending is just t-y, with no extra i before it.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) kindniss
b) honisty
c) loyalty
d) bravary
Show answer
c) loyalty. All four name good qualities; kindness is kind + ness, so it ends in ness, not niss.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The team's loyelty to its coach never changed.
a) coach
b) loyelty
c) changed
d) team's
Show answer
b) loyelty. Loyalty keeps the a of loyal.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
ytlolya
a) loyalty
b) loylaty
c) loyatly
d) laoylty
Show answer
a) loyalty. Six of the letters make a word for faithful; the t and y go on the end.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which act shows loyalty?
a) keeping a promise to a friend
b) telling a friend's secret
c) laughing at a friend
d) leaving a friend in trouble
Show answer
a) keeping a promise to a friend
2. Some shops hand out loyalty cards. Who gets one?
a) people who work in the shop
b) children under five years
c) anyone who returns a gift
d) customers who keep coming back
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d) customers who keep coming back
