What does surveyor mean?
Word: Surveyor
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Surveyor means a person whose job is to measure land and make maps or plans of it, or to check the condition of buildings.
How do you spell surveyor?
Syllables: sur - vey - or
Tricky part: The first part is survey, with ur and then ey, so check the vowels in the first two beats.
Watch out for: surveior, survayor, sirveyor
Memory tip: A surveyor surveys, so the whole of survey comes first, exactly as you spell the job itself.
Surveyor in a sentence
Example 1: A surveyor came to mark the boundary between the two farms.
Example 2: The surveyor set up his instrument on a tripod beside the new metro line.
Example 3: Before buying the old house, my parents asked a surveyor to check the walls for cracks.
Fun Fact
The Great Trigonometrical Survey of India, begun in 1802, measured the land so carefully that its surveyors worked out the height of Mount Everest.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the correct suffix to add to the root word:
survey
a) or
b) ar
c) er
d) our
Show answer
a) or. Survey takes the same person ending as inspector and visitor.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) architecht
b) electritian
c) mechanik
d) surveyor
Show answer
d) surveyor. Architect ends in ct, electrician has cian and mechanic ends in a plain c, which leaves surveyor.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
yovruers
a) surveyor
b) survivor
c) sorcerer
d) surrender
Show answer
a) surveyor. Survivor needs two v's and an i, sorcerer a c and surrender an n and a d, so the letters build surveyor.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The surveyor arived at our school just after lunch to measure the new playground.
a) surveyor
b) arived
c) lunch
d) playground
Show answer
b) arived. Arrive has a double r, so arrived does too.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Before a new road is built, a surveyor ____.
a) drives the first bus
b) sells toll tickets
c) measures and maps the land
d) paints the road signs
Show answer
c) measures and maps the land
2. Which pair of words goes best with surveyor?
a) pots and pans
b) land and maps
c) teeth and gums
d) wires and fuses
Show answer
b) land and maps
