Thinking and knowing
Synonyms for settlement
Synonyms for settlement: resolution and colony. 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 settlement
Interchangeable with settlement in this sense
Audited under settlement's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one settlement carries in that sense.
- resolutionnoun, in the sense "something settled or resolved"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name settlement as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- colonycolony is a noun in the sense "a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland"
The first group is filed under settlement's own sense. The second reaches settlement from the partner word's entry, so the sense quoted beside it is that word's.
something settled or resolved
They finally reached a settlement with the union.
The true synonym
resolution
Same sentence, swapped: They finally reached a resolution with the union.
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 settlement in the sentence quoted.
- colony
- village
- reject
Where settlement turns up in the game
settlement 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 two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where settlement is the trap
- choicenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is option, in the sense "one of a number of things from which only one can be chosen", and settlement is one of the three tiles that lose.
- encampmentnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is bivouac, in the sense "a place with tents or temporary shelters, especially for a group such as soldiers or travelers", so settlement is there to be ruled out.
Play settlement
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so settlement reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Closest first: other thinking and knowing words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. settlement carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.