Groups and collections

Synonyms for league

The synonym for league recorded in this bank is alliance, in the sense "a group of people, teams, or nations joined together for a common purpose". 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 league

alliancenoun, in the sense "a group of people, teams, or nations joined together for a common purpose"

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 league is audited in a second meaning.

The sensenounTier 1, FoothillsGroups and collections

a group of people, teams, or nations joined together for a common purpose

Eight nations joined the league to coordinate trade policy.

This is the whole of what a player sees before choosing. The meaning has to come out of it.

The true synonym

alliance

Same sentence, swapped: Eight nations joined the alliance to coordinate trade policy.

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.

jury
audience
crowd

Where league turns up in the game

league 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 league is the trap

agreementnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is correspondence, in the sense "compatibility of observations", with league sitting one tile away.

Play league

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so league 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 groups and collections at Foothills outward to the whole bank.

gangnounmoban organized group of people who act together, often for criminal purposes.FoothillsHas a reason line handnoun, verbdealthe cards held in a card game by a given player at any given timeFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line hordenounswarma large, disorganized group of people or animals.FoothillsHas a reason line housenounfirmthe members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishmentsFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line jurisprudencenounlawthe collection of rules imposed by authorityHigh CampHas a reason line jurynounpanela group of people sworn to give a verdict in a legal caseFoothillsHas a reason line lawnounpolicethe force of policemen and officersFoothills powernounelectricityenergy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductorFoothills2 sensesHas a reason line

Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here

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

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