Places
Synonyms for cove
Synonyms for cove: bay and lagoon. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for cove
Interchangeable with cove in this sense
Audited under cove's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one cove carries in that sense.
- baynoun, in the sense "a small sheltered inlet of water along a coast"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name cove as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- lagoonlagoon is a noun in the sense "a shallow body of water separated from the sea by a reef or sandbar"
The first group is filed under cove's own sense. The second reaches cove from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a small sheltered inlet of water along a coast
Fishermen anchored their boats in the cove.
The true synonym
bay
Same sentence, swapped: Fishermen anchored their boats in the bay.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- lagoon
- peninsula
- reef
Where cove turns up in the game
cove 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 cove
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so cove reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
Free with ads on iPhone. Synonym Stack Plus removes them: $2.99 a week, $5.99 a month or $49.99 a year, with a 7 day free trial on the monthly and annual plans.
Closest first: other places words at Foothills, 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. cove carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.