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pyre en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈpaɪɚ/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.

Meanings

  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
    • For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. Iliad, p. 31
    • The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
    • The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.
    • Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.

Forms

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pyres Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

funeral pyre

Relateds

empyreal · empyrean · pyro- · pyr- · pyral

Translations (43)

el πυρά (funeral pile) · da bål (funeral pile) · es pira (funeral pile) · ga breocharn (funeral pile) · sv bål (heap of combustibles) · cmn 火葬用的柴堆 (funeral pile) · nb likbål (funeral pile) · cs hranice (funeral pile) · ru погреба́льный костёр (funeral pile) · sh lomača (heap of combustibles) · et tuleriit (funeral pile) · sv bål (funeral pile) · it rogo (funeral pile) · te చితి (funeral pile) · cy coelcerth (funeral pile) · hu máglya (funeral pile) · de Feuerstapel (heap of combustibles) · nl brandstapel (funeral pile) · bg клада (funeral pile) · fi hautarovio (funeral pile) · pl stos pogrzebowy (funeral pile) · la pyra (funeral pile) · ro rug (funeral pile) · da ild (funeral pile) · sh pogrebna lòmača (funeral pile) · de Scheiterhaufen (funeral pile) · ca pira (funeral pile) · la rogus (funeral pile) · sv kase (heap of combustibles) · da bål (heap of combustibles) · fr bûcher (funeral pile) · fi kokko (heap of combustibles) · fi rovio (heap of combustibles) · pt pira (funeral pile) · grc πυρά (funeral pile) · it pira (funeral pile) · fi rovio (funeral pile) · ml ചിത (funeral pile) · ur چتا (funeral pile) · ang ād (funeral pile) · hi चिता (funeral pile) · sk hranica (funeral pile) · nb bål (heap of combustibles)