People and roles

Synonyms for dean

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · noun

The sensenounTier 5, SummitPeople and roles

a man who is the senior member of a group

He is the dean of foreign correspondents.

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

The true synonym

doyen

Same sentence, swapped: He is the doyen of foreign correspondents.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for dean as it is used in the sentence above.

official
genius
champion

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