Places
Synonyms for campus
The synonym for campus recorded in this bank is grounds, in the sense "the grounds and buildings of a university or college". 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 campus
- groundsnoun, in the sense "the grounds and buildings of a university or college"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day campus is audited in a second meaning.
the grounds and buildings of a university or college.
Students crossed the campus between classes, backpacks slung over their shoulders.
The true synonym
grounds
Same sentence, swapped: Students crossed the grounds between classes, backpacks slung over their shoulders.
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 campus in the sentence quoted.
- dormitory
- faculty
- curriculum
Where campus turns up in the game
campus is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. 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 campus is the trap
- yardnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is grounds, in the sense "the enclosed land around a house or other building", so campus is there to be ruled out.
Play campus
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so campus 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 places words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. campus carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.