Groups and collections
Synonyms for tribe
The synonym for tribe recorded in this bank is clan, in the sense "a social group made up of families or communities sharing common ancestry and customs". 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 tribe
- clannoun, in the sense "a social group made up of families or communities sharing common ancestry and customs"
That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and tribe carries one sense so far.
a social group made up of families or communities sharing common ancestry and customs
The tribe migrated south each winter to follow the herds.
The true synonym
clan
Same sentence, swapped: The clan migrated south each winter to follow the herds.
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 tribe is in above, which is the point the reason line makes.
- committee
- jury
- audience
Where tribe turns up in the game
tribe is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 1, Foothills. 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 tribe
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so tribe 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 groups and collections words at Foothills, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
The wrong tile gets explained too
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. tribe carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.