Making and creating

Synonyms for artisan

The synonym for artisan recorded in this bank is craftsman, in the sense "a worker skilled in making things by hand". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for artisan

craftsmannoun, in the sense "a worker skilled in making things by hand"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and artisan carries one sense so far.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsMaking and creating

a worker skilled in making things by hand

The artisan spent months hand-carving the wooden chest.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

craftsman

Same sentence, swapped: The craftsman spent months hand-carving the wooden chest.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for artisan in the sentence quoted.

vendor
peddler
merchant

Where artisan turns up in the game

artisan is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play artisan

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so artisan reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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Closest first: other making and creating words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

moldverbshapeto shape or form character or material into a particular formFoothillsHas a reason line originallyadverbinitiallyas first created, before any later changeFoothillsHas a reason line plannoun, verbdesignan arrangement schemeFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line produceverbmakecreate or manufacture a man-made productFoothillsHas a reason line laboriouslyadverbarduouslywith great effort and diligenceRidgelineHas a reason line loopverbintertwinemake a loop inHigh Camp manufacturenoun, verbfabricationthe act of making something (a product) from raw materialsRidgeline2 sensesHas a reason line amountverb, nouncometo measure up to in kind or qualityFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. artisan carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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