People and roles
Synonyms for hero
The synonym for hero recorded in this bank is champion, in the sense "a person admired for courageous action in danger". 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 hero
- championnoun, in the sense "a person admired for courageous action in danger"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for hero.
a person admired for courageous action in danger.
The firefighter was hailed as a hero after pulling three children from the burning building.
The true synonym
champion
Same sentence, swapped: The firefighter was hailed as a champion after pulling three children from the burning building.
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.
- victim
- suspect
- bystander
Where hero turns up in the game
hero 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 four other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where hero is the trap
- boyfriendnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is fellow, in the sense "a man who is the lover of a man or woman", and hero is one of the three tiles that lose.
- fellownoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is dude, in the sense "an informal form of address for a man", so hero is there to be ruled out.
- villainnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is scoundrel, in the sense "a wicked or evil person, especially in a story", so hero is there to be ruled out.
- captainnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is chieftain, in the sense "the leader of a group of people", and hero is on the board beside it.
Play hero
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so hero 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 people and roles at Foothills outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. hero carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.