What does technician mean?
Word: Technician
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Technician means a skilled worker who sets up, checks or repairs machines and equipment, or does practical work in a laboratory.
How do you spell technician?
Syllables: tech - ni - cian
Tricky part: The first ch sounds like k, as in school, so do not write tecnician or teknician.
Watch out for: tecnician, techinician, teknician
Memory tip: The word opens with tech, the same tech as in technology, so the h belongs straight after the first c.
Technician in a sentence
Example 1: A technician came to fix the air conditioner in our classroom.
Example 2: The lab technician labelled every blood sample with care.
Example 3: Before the match, a technician checked every floodlight at the stadium.
Fun Fact
Technician, technique and technology all come from the Greek word tekhne, meaning art or skill.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
When the lift got stuck, a technition from the company arrived within twenty minutes.
a) lift
b) technition
c) company
d) minutes
Show answer
b) technition. The shun sound at the end of technician is spelt cian, as in musician.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word: technician
a) mechanic
b) customer
c) visitor
d) beginner
Show answer
a) mechanic. Mechanics and technicians are both skilled at fixing machines.
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
cinanhetic
a) technical
b) technician
c) tactician
d) ethnicity
Show answer
b) technician. Technical needs an l, tactician has no h and ethnicity a y, so the two n's here belong to technician.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A sound technician at a concert is mainly in charge of ____.
a) the food and drinks
b) the mics and speakers
c) the songs and lyrics
d) the tickets and seats
Show answer
b) the mics and speakers
2. Who among these is a technician?
a) a person who coaches teams
b) a person who fixes fridges
c) a person who sells fruit
d) a person who writes poems
Show answer
b) a person who fixes fridges
