Nature
Synonyms for canyon
The synonym for canyon recorded in this bank is gorge, in the sense "a deep gorge, often with a river running through it". 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 canyon
- gorgenoun, in the sense "a deep gorge, often with a river running through it"
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 canyon is audited in a second meaning.
a deep gorge, often with a river running through it
The river had carved a canyon deep into the red rock over millions of years.
The true synonym
gorge
Same sentence, swapped: The river had carved a gorge deep into the red rock over millions of years.
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 canyon in the sentence quoted.
- cave
- ridge
- foothill
Where canyon turns up in the game
canyon 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where canyon is the trap
- lagoonnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is cove, in the sense "a shallow body of water separated from the sea by a reef or sandbar", and canyon is on the board beside it.
- plateaunoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is tableland, in the sense "an area of flat, elevated land", and canyon is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play canyon
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so canyon reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because nature is the company canyon keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. canyon carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.