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Spell Bee Word: Priestess

Priestess (noun): a woman who leads religious ceremonies, especially in old religions and myths.


What does priestess mean?

Word: Priestess

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Priestess means a woman who leads religious ceremonies, especially in old religions and myths.

How do you spell priestess?

Syllables: priest - ess

Tricky part: The ie of priest is easy to turn round into ei. Keep it exactly as it is in priest.

Watch out for: preistess, preestess, pristess

Memory tip: Priestess is priest with nothing changed at the front: see the whole of priest, i before e, and then the ending.

Priestess in a sentence

Example 1: In the story, a priestess kept the lamp in the great hall burning.

Example 2: The actor playing the priestess wore a long white robe.

Example 3: Grandma read us a myth about a priestess who could talk to rivers.

Fun Fact

At Delphi in ancient Greece, a priestess known as the Pythia answered questions from visitors who came from far and wide.

Practise the CREST Way

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

sestpiers

a) priestess
b) progress
c) prettiest
d) princess

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a) priestess. Spot priest in the jumble first; the e and two s that are left over make the ending.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) histery
b) priestess
c) libary
d) jurney

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b) priestess. History has an o before the r, library has an r after the b, and journey has ou.

Word Makeup

Choose the suffix that completes the word:

priest

a) ess
b) ass
c) iss
d) es

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a) ess. Ess is the ending that names a woman in old pairs like host and hostess.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Priestess is made by adding ess to a shorter word. Which word is made in the same way?

a) mattress
b) lioness
c) address
d) careless

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b) lioness

2. A priestess in an old story is most like a:

a) merchant
b) leader of ceremonies
c) sailor
d) queen

Show answer

b) leader of ceremonies

Associated Words

Words that end in -ess: duchess, actress, unless, heiress, witness, distress

More words from this list

signature, twirl, airborne, charitable, differ, final, inflexible, mislead

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