pyre
About 0.61 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
- noun Any heap or pile of combustibles.
Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.
Similar words
funeral pyre bonfire fire hutch stake pile retort ashpit woodpile firepit
Often followed by
of and was in is with on to for
Word family
pyres
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