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Synonyms for festival

The synonym for festival recorded in this bank is fete, in the sense "an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 3, Ridgeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for festival

fetenoun, in the sense "an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)"

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 festival is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 3, RidgelineActions

an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place)

A drama festival.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

fete

Same sentence, swapped: A drama fete.

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 festival in the sentence quoted.

merrymaking
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holiday

Where festival turns up in the game

festival is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 3, Ridgeline. 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 festival is the trap

gatheringnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is meetup, in the sense "an occasion when a group of people meet together socially", with festival sitting one tile away.

Play festival

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so festival reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

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