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📚 noun • entry_id 2466

pyre

/ˈpaɪɚ/
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
pira
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.
The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
Phrases
funeral pyre
Word forms
pyres