Contact and joining
Synonyms for overture
Synonyms for overture: gesture and preliminary. 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.
The 2 synonyms for overture
Interchangeable with overture in this sense
Audited under overture's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one overture carries in that sense.
- gesturenoun, in the sense "an opening approach made to initiate a relationship or deal"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name overture as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- preliminarypreliminary is a noun in the sense "something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under overture and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
an opening approach made to initiate a relationship or deal
The company made a friendly overture to its rival, hinting at a possible merger.
The true synonym
gesture
Same sentence, swapped: The company made a friendly gesture to its rival, hinting at a possible merger.
Close but different
The game shows these three beside the answer. Each is a real word with a real meaning and none of them fits the slot overture is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- ultimatum
- rebuttal
- apology
Where overture turns up in the game
overture is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where overture is the trap
- approachnoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is coming, in the sense "the act of drawing spatially closer to something", and overture is on the board beside it.
- finalenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is climax, in the sense "the last and climactic part of a performance", so overture is there to be ruled out.
- intervalnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is intermission, in the sense "a pause or break between two parts of an event", with overture sitting one tile away.
Play overture
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so overture reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because contact and joining is the company overture keeps.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. overture carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.