Groups and collections
Synonyms for city
The synonym for city recorded in this bank is metropolis, in the sense "people living in a large densely populated municipality". 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 city
- metropolisnoun, in the sense "people living in a large densely populated municipality"
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 city is audited in a second meaning.
people living in a large densely populated municipality
The city voted for Republicans in 1994.
The true synonym
metropolis
Same sentence, swapped: The metropolis voted for Republicans in 1994.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot city is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- townspeople
- downtown
- uptown
Where city turns up in the game
city 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 city is the trap
- hamletnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is village, in the sense "a small village, especially one without a church", and city is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play city
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so city reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from groups and collections at Treeline outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. city carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.