What does relevance mean?
Word: Relevance
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Relevance means how closely something is connected with the subject being discussed, or how important it is now.
Synonyms: importance, connection, bearing
Antonyms: irrelevance
How do you spell relevance?
Syllables: rel - e - vance
Tricky part: The ending is ance, not ence. Some students also swap the l and v and write revelance.
Watch out for: relevence, revelance, relavance
Memory tip: Relevance goes with relevant: both keep an a after the v. Relev-ant, relev-ance.
Relevance in a sentence
Example 1: The teacher asked us to check the relevance of each fact before adding it to our project.
Example 2: Old maps still have relevance for historians.
Example 3: Rahul could not see the relevance of the question to the lesson.
Fun Fact
Relevant comes from the Latin relevare, 'to lift up again', the same word that gave English relieve.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
rellevance
a) l
b) e
c) n
d) v
Show answer
a) l. Rel has just one l, as in relative.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) existance
b) importence
c) relevance
d) apperance
Show answer
c) relevance. Appearance keeps the ea of appear, importance ends in ance, and existence ends in ence.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: relevance
a) absence
b) ignorance
c) significance
d) patience
Show answer
c) significance. Something with relevance matters to the topic, so it has significance.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
vcnaleere
a) relevance
b) reverence
c) relevant
d) severance
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a) relevance. Reverence needs a second r, severance an s and relevant a t.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which question has no relevance to a lesson on the water cycle?
a) Why do clouds form in the sky?
b) Who won the last cricket World Cup?
c) Where does rainwater go after a storm?
d) How does a puddle dry up?
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b) Who won the last cricket World Cup?
2. Which fact has the most relevance to a project on rainfall in India?
a) when the monsoon reaches Kerala
b) how many players a cricket team has
c) who invented the telephone
d) how tall Mount Everest is
Show answer
a) when the monsoon reaches Kerala
