Nature

Synonyms for lagoon

The synonym for lagoon recorded in this bank is cove, in the sense "a shallow body of water separated from the sea by a reef or sandbar". 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 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The synonym for lagoon

covenoun, in the sense "a shallow body of water separated from the sea by a reef or sandbar"

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 lagoon is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsNature

a shallow body of water separated from the sea by a reef or sandbar

Turquoise water filled the lagoon behind the coral reef.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

cove

Same sentence, swapped: Turquoise water filled the cove behind the coral reef.

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 lagoon in the sentence quoted.

glacier
canyon
oasis

Where lagoon turns up in the game

lagoon 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 lagoon is the trap

covenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is bay, in the sense "a small sheltered inlet of water along a coast", so lagoon is there to be ruled out.

Play lagoon

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so lagoon 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 wrong tile gets explained too

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