Noun: pyre
Sample Sentences
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The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
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The effigy was set ablaze on the pyre.
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For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. [Iliad, p. 31]
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Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.
Nouns inflected like pyre
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire. See: Ancient Greek Nouns '
πυρά'.