What does politician mean?
Word: Politician
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Politician means a person who works in politics, for example as an elected member of a government or as a party leader.
Synonyms: leader
How do you spell politician?
Syllables: pol - i - ti - cian
Tricky part: The ending sounds like shun but is spelt cian, not tion or sion. There is only one l.
Watch out for: politision, politicion, pollitician
Memory tip: Musician, magician and politician are all people, and all three end the same way: the shun sound is spelt cian.
Politician in a sentence
Example 1: The politician promised to build a new bridge over the river.
Example 2: The politician shook hands with every farmer at the market.
Example 3: My cousin wants to be a politician so she can fix the roads in her town.
Fun Fact
Politician is built on politic, which goes back to the Greek word polis, a city; the same root is found in metropolis, a very large city.
Practise the CREST Way
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) politician
b) parliment
c) candidete
d) goverment
Show answer
a) politician. Government keeps the n of govern, parliament has an a after the li, and candidate ends in date.
Word Cookie
Insert the correct pair of letters to form a word:
p_l_tician
a) a, i
b) e, i
c) o, i
d) o, e
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c) o, i. The first two vowels are o and i, the same as in police.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
cilotipina
a) pollution
b) political
c) politician
d) position
Show answer
c) politician. Political needs a second l, pollution a u and position an s, so politician is left.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: politician
a) voter
b) magistrate
c) journalist
d) lawmaker
Show answer
d) lawmaker. A lawmaker is elected to help make the laws, which is a politician's work.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Politician is built on politics. Politics is mainly about:
a) how news is gathered and shared
b) how money is printed and stored
c) how rivers and mountains form
d) how a country or state is run
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d) how a country or state is run
2. Before an election, a politician usually tries to:
a) collect the taxes
b) choose the judges
c) count the votes
d) win people's votes
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d) win people's votes
