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Metadata-driven navigation and Synonyms
Yup, you’re correct, it Is really about using the tags for 2 purposes. 1) for the nav, as you’ve outlined. 2) for general search results. The synonyms would come into play for the second use, throughout the intranet “Knowledgebase” of pages. Where someone might enter a term like ‘auto’ and results should return ‘car’ too.
It is my understanding that pre-Bing as the search tool, this required a 3rd party.
Maybe you need to leverage Bing Synonyms API to get appropriate use of synonyms functionality. OOB may not work.
https://www.bing.com/partners/developers
Synonyms API
Discover different ways people refer to products, people, locations, and more.
Did you know that "Canon 600d" is a common product synonym for "Canon Rebel t3i?" Or that "jlo" is a synonym for the person "Jennifer Lopez?"
Discover different ways people refer to real world entities like products, people, locations, and more, then infuse that knowledge into your apps and websites.
Also for synonym support have you tried other labels part of term store which lets you enter synonyms and abbreviations for the specific term.
You can use powershell to work it very effectively in search once if you have all your synonyms listed for a specific term.