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Spell Bee Word: Meat


What does meat mean?

Word: Meat

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Meat means the flesh of an animal, such as chicken or goat, eaten as food.

Sounds like: meet (to come together with someone)

How do you spell meat?

Syllables: meat

Tricky part: Meat and meet sound the same. The food is spelt with ea; meet, with ee, means to come together.

Watch out for: meate, meit

Memory tip: Meat and meal both come to the table with ea in the middle.

Meat in a sentence

Example 1: My uncle has not eaten meat for ten years.

Example 2: The butcher wrapped the meat in paper.

Example 3: Some families buy fresh meat on Sundays.

Fun Fact

Long ago, meat in English meant any kind of food. That is why a sweetmeat is a sweet, not meat.

Practise the CREST Way

Sound Check

Which of the following words does not rhyme with 'meat'?

a) beat
b) street
c) sweet
d) great

Show answer

d) great. Great has ea too, but it says ay.

Word Fusion

Add the correct option to the following to make a new word:

meat____

a) bal
b) boll
c) ball
d) bawl

Show answer

c) ball. Meat and ball make meatball, a small round ball of minced meat.

Spell Spies

Choose the pair which has a spelling error:

a) meat : chicken
b) grain : wheat
c) fruit : mango
d) vegtable : carrot

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d) vegtable : carrot. Food group and example in every pair; vegetable has an e after veg.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. A person who does not eat meat is called a ___.

a) librarian
b) vegetarian
c) musician
d) carpenter

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b) vegetarian

2. Pick the kind of meat:

a) lentils
b) cheese
c) tofu
d) mutton

Show answer

d) mutton

Associated Words

More Class 3 Winter Spell Bee words starting with m: million, moderate, mixer, marble, multiplication, moan

More words from this list

prove, sprout, tongs, wring, butterscotch, crooked, dustpan, harmonium

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