Events
Synonyms for watershed
Synonyms for watershed: landmark and basin. 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 watershed
Interchangeable with watershed in this sense
Audited under watershed's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one watershed carries in that sense.
- landmarknoun, in the sense "an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend"
Recorded from the other side of the pair
These entries were written under the other word and name watershed as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.
- basinbasin is a noun in the sense "the entire geographical area drained by a river and its tributaries"
Two directions, one standard: one audited under watershed and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.
an event marking a unique or important historical change of course or one on which important developments depend
The agreement was a watershed in the history of both nations.
The true synonym
landmark
Same sentence, swapped: The agreement was a landmark in the history of both nations.
Close but different
These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where watershed stands in the sentence above.
- basin
- divide
- straits
Where watershed turns up in the game
watershed is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where watershed is the trap
- basinnoun, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is lavatory, in the sense "a bathroom sink that is permanently installed and connected to a water supply and drainpipe", and watershed is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play watershed
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so watershed 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 events words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.
One vocabulary, two jobs
watershed is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 1. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.