pyre.
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
Meaning & usage
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.
Any heap or pile of combustibles.
Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.
Where this word comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.