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Pyre

//ˈpaɪɚ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.

    "The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead."

  2. 2
    wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite wordnet
  3. 3
    Any heap or pile of combustibles.

    "Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky."

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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