Groups and collections
Synonyms for ensemble
Synonyms for ensemble: band and combo. 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 ensemble
Interchangeable with ensemble in this sense
Audited under ensemble's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one ensemble carries in that sense.
- bandnoun, in the sense "a group of musicians or performers who play or perform together"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name ensemble as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- combocombo is a noun in the sense "informal: a small group of musicians who perform together"
The first group is filed under ensemble's own sense. The second reaches ensemble from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
a group of musicians or performers who play or perform together
The jazz ensemble rehearsed a new arrangement before the show.
The true synonym
band
Same sentence, swapped: The jazz band rehearsed a new arrangement before the show.
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.
- audience
- congregation
- committee
Where ensemble turns up in the game
ensemble is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 ensemble is the trap
- quartetnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is foursome, in the sense "four people considered as a unit", with ensemble sitting one tile away.
Play ensemble
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so ensemble 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 groups and collections is the company ensemble keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. ensemble carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.