pyre
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 9
- Letters
- 4
Definition of pyre
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
“The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.”
“The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.”
“For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.”
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noun
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A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
“The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.”
“The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.”
“For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.”
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Any heap or pile of combustibles.
“Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
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