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Synonyms for spire

The synonym for spire recorded in this bank is steeple, in the sense "a tall, tapering structure on top of a building, especially a church tower". 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 2, Treeline · 1 sense · noun · 1 reason line

The synonym for spire

steeplenoun, in the sense "a tall, tapering structure on top of a building, especially a church tower"

A single pair, which is what a single sense earns. Words further down the page are near misses and are not synonyms for spire.

The sensenounTier 2, TreelineObjects

a tall, tapering structure on top of a building, especially a church tower

The cathedral's spire pierced the low clouds.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

steeple

Same sentence, swapped: The cathedral's steeple pierced the low clouds.

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 spire in the sentence quoted.

dome
chimney
balcony

Where spire turns up in the game

spire is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play spire

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so spire 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 wrong tile gets explained too

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