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Synonyms for shop
The synonym for shop recorded in this bank is store, in the sense "a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for shop
- storenoun, in the sense "a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services"
A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for shop.
a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services
He bought it at a shop on Cape Cod.
The true synonym
store
Same sentence, swapped: He bought it at a store on Cape Cod.
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 shop is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- workshop
- center
- marketplace
Where shop turns up in the game
shop 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where shop is the trap
- secondverb, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is back, in the sense "give support or one's approval to", and shop is on the board beside it.
- storenoun, Tier 1, Foothills. The answer there is stock, in the sense "a supply of something available for future use", with shop sitting one tile away.
- plazanoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is mall, in the sense "mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers", and shop is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play shop
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so shop 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 objects is the company shop keeps.
Why the near miss missed, in the game as well as here
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. shop carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.