What does tourist mean?
Word: Tourist
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Tourist means a person who visits a place for pleasure, usually on holiday.
Synonyms: holidaymaker
How do you spell tourist?
Syllables: tour - ist
Tricky part: The first vowel group is ou, however you say it. Children who spell by ear write u or oo there.
Watch out for: turist, toorist
Memory tip: This person goes OUt to see the sights: keep that ou near the start.
Tourist in a sentence
Example 1: A tourist from France asked me to take her photo at the Gateway of India.
Example 2: Every tourist in Jaipur wants to see the Hawa Mahal.
Example 3: The tourist bus stopped so that we could watch the sunset at Kanyakumari.
Fun Fact
Countries mark World Tourism Day every year on 27 September, and it has been held since 1980.
Practise the CREST Way
Mingle-Mangle
Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:
strouit
a) tortoise
b) stirrup
c) tourist
d) turmoil
Show answer
c) tourist. Tortoise and turmoil bring in letters the jumble lacks, and stirrup has no o.
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
tour____
a) est
b) ast
c) ist
d) yst
Show answer
c) ist. The ending ist names a person, as in artist and cyclist.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
tourist
a) shopkeeper
b) sightseer
c) resident
d) sailor
Show answer
b) sightseer. A sightseer travels to look at famous places, just as a tourist does.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The tourrist took a boat ride on the Dal Lake in Srinagar.
a) tourrist
b) ride
c) took
d) boat
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a) tourrist. The r is not doubled after the ou.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. A person who lives and works in Goa is not a tourist there because ____.
a) the person is at home, not visiting
b) the person has a very good map
c) the person likes to swim at dawn
d) the person carries no camera
Show answer
a) the person is at home, not visiting
2. What does a tourist office usually give out?
a) seeds for nearby farmers
b) maps and guides to local sights
c) school books for local pupils
d) forms for new bank accounts
Show answer
b) maps and guides to local sights
