What does student mean?
Word: Student
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Student means a person who is studying at a school, college or university.
Synonyms: pupil, learner
How do you spell student?
Syllables: stu - dent
Tricky part: The word ends in ent, not ant or int. Studant and studint are the usual slips.
Watch out for: studant, studint, studunt
Memory tip: Think of a student who finds a dent in a lunch box: student finishes with dent.
Student in a sentence
Example 1: Every student in Class 3 got a new library card.
Example 2: Amara is the best chess player among the students.
Example 3: The students lined up for the morning assembly.
Fun Fact
Student comes from the Latin word studere, which meant to be eager or to work hard at something.
Practise the CREST Way
Spellacadabra
Choose the correct option to make a meaningful word:
st_dent
a) o
b) a
c) i
d) u
Show answer
d) u. The first part sounds like stew, and that sound is spelt with a plain u here.
Spell Spies
Choose the option with no spelling errors:
a) student, library, unifrom, notebuk
b) student, liberary, uneform, notebook
c) student, library, uniform, notebook
d) student, libary, uniform, notbook
Show answer
c) student, library, uniform, notebook. Library has r after the b, uniform keeps or at the end, and notebook keeps its e.
Word Champ
Which of the words cannot be made using the letters in the given word?
student
a) stunt
b) dust
c) stunned
d) tent
Show answer
c) stunned. Stunned needs two n's, and student has only one.
Sound Check
Which of the following words rhymes with student?
a) sudden
b) spending
c) standard
d) prudent
Show answer
d) prudent. Prudent, meaning sensible, ends with the same oo-dent sound as student.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does a student usually do in a library?
a) cooks and serves food
b) sells fruit and flowers
c) reads and borrows books
d) repairs bikes and buses
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c) reads and borrows books
2. Which word names a group of students taught together?
a) a class
b) a flock
c) a herd
d) a fleet
Show answer
a) a class
