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fork has 9 distinct synonyms spread across 5 of its 9 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
cutlery used for serving and eating food
the act of branching out or dividing into branches
place under attack with one's own pieces, of two enemy pieces
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for fork come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
divide into two or more branches so as to form a fork
“The road forks”
shape like a fork
“She forked her fingers”