bonfire

About 0.65 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
2. noun A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally , heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
3. noun Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
4. noun A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
5. verb To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; to burn or set alight. To fire (pottery) using a bonfire. To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
6. verb To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; to burn or set alight.
7. verb To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
8. verb To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.

Similar words

balefire blaze pyre torch burning fire fireplace campfire furnace lamp

Often followed by

of in and was on to night at is

Word family

bonfires