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SPELLING BEE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does spelling bee mean?

• SPELLING BEE (noun)
The noun SPELLING BEE has 1 sense:

1. a contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly

Familiarity information: SPELLING BEE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SPELLING BEE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

spelldown; spelling bee; spelling contest

Hypernyms ("spelling bee" is a kind of...):

competition; contest (an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants)

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