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Synonyms for landmark

Synonyms for landmark: marker, milestone and watershed. 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.

3 synonyms · Tier 1, Foothills · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 3 synonyms for landmark

Interchangeable with landmark in this sense

Audited under landmark's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one landmark carries in that sense.

markernoun, in the sense "a recognizable feature that identifies a location"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name landmark as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

milestonemilestone is a noun in the sense "a significant point or event in the passage of time"
watershedwatershed is a noun in the sense "an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under landmark and two under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsPlaces

a recognizable feature that identifies a location

The lighthouse served as a landmark for passing ships.

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

The true synonym

marker

Same sentence, swapped: The lighthouse served as a marker for passing ships.

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 landmark in the sentence quoted.

harbor
district
horizon

Where landmark turns up in the game

landmark 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 landmark is the trap

havennoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is refuge, in the sense "a place of safety or refuge", and landmark is on the board beside it.

Play landmark

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so landmark 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 places at Foothills outward to the whole bank.

spotnounplacea point located with respect to surface features of some regionFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line sprawlverbspreadto spread out over a large area in a loose, irregular wayFoothillsHas a reason line stationnounplaceproper or designated social situationFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line terrainnoungroundthe physical features of a stretch of landFoothillsHas a reason line forefrontnounheadthe part in the front or nearest the viewerRidgeline2 senses frontnounmovementa group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goalsFoothills2 senses hamletnounvillagea small village, especially one without a church.FoothillsHas a reason line cornernounboxa predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossibleFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. landmark carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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