People and roles
Synonyms for dean
The synonym for dean recorded in this bank is doyen, in the sense "a man who is the senior member of a group". 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 dean
- doyennoun, in the sense "a man who is the senior member of a group"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and dean carries one sense so far.
a man who is the senior member of a group
He is the dean of foreign correspondents.
The true synonym
doyen
Same sentence, swapped: He is the doyen of foreign correspondents.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- official
- genius
- champion
Where dean turns up in the game
dean is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.
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