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Definition of Spelling contest
1. Noun. A contest in which you are eliminated if you fail to spell a word correctly.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spelling Contest
Literary usage of Spelling contest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Champion Spelling Book: For Public and Private Schools by Warren Edwin Hicks (1909)
"... SECOND spelling contest NOTE. —Add other words which have been misspelled
during the past two months. ..."
2. The Community Center by Lyda Judson Hanifan (1920)
"(1) Occasionally the spelling-bee will furnish entertainment for the entire
evening, but it is well upon most occasions to precede the spelling contest with ..."
3. Spelling Efficiency in Relation to Age, Grade and Sex, and the Question of by John Edward Wallace Wallin (1911)
"In the first interschool spelling contest the pupils of the eighth grade ...
Better known is the NEA spelling contest, in which Cleveland scored the highest ..."
4. Spelling Efficiency in Relation to Age, Grade and Sex, and the Question of by John Edward Wallace Wallin (1911)
"In the first interschool spelling contest the pupils of the eighth grade ...
Better known is the NEA spelling contest, in which Cleveland scored the highest ..."
5. Efficiency in City Government by Clyde Lyndon King (1912)
"On December 10, 1906, there was held what was termed the First spelling contest,
or the first test of the efficiency of the new work in spelling. ..."
6. Story Hour Readers by Ida Coe, Alice Christie Dillon (1913)
"18 THIS book embodies the method that enabled the pupils in the Cleveland schools
after two years to win the National Education Association spelling contest ..."
7. A School Manual of English Composition: For Advanced Grammar Grades, and for by William Swinton (1905)
"... embodies the method that enabled the pupils in the Cleveland schools after
two years to win the National Education Association spelling contest of 1908. ..."
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