People and roles
Synonyms for boyfriend
The synonym for boyfriend recorded in this bank is fellow, in the sense "a man who is the lover of a man or woman". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for boyfriend
- fellownoun, in the sense "a man who is the lover of a man or woman"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and boyfriend carries one sense so far.
a man who is the lover of a man or woman
If I'd known he was her boyfriend, I wouldn't have asked.
The true synonym
fellow
Same sentence, swapped: If I'd known he was her fellow, I wouldn't have asked.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- girlfriend
- hero
- favorite
Where boyfriend turns up in the game
boyfriend is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where boyfriend is the trap
- fellownoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is colleague, in the sense "a person who is member of one's class or profession", so boyfriend is there to be ruled out.
Play boyfriend
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so boyfriend 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 people and roles words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
boyfriend is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.