Halloween was brought to North America by immigrants from Europe who would celebrate the harvest around a bonfire, share ghost stories, sing, and tell fortunes.
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Bonfire
//ˈbɒnfaɪəɹ//
Synonyms for "bonfire" (15 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Strong matches (5)
Related words (7)
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8 entriesTranslations
97 translations across 49 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَشْعَل noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Armenian
2 entries- խարույկ noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- խարույկ noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Basque
1 entries- sutzar noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Belarusian
2 entries- во́гнішча noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- касцёр noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Bhojpuri
3 entries- 𑂃𑂪𑂰𑂫 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 𑂍𑂸𑂚𑂰 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 𑂐𑂴𑂩𑂰 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Breton
1 entries- tantad noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Catalan
2 entries- foguera noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- foguera noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 篝火 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 篝火 noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Czech
2 entries- táborák noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- vatra noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Danish
1 entries- bål noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Dutch
2 entries- brandstapel noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
- vreugdevuur noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Esperanto
3 entries- festfajro noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- rubfajro noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- rubfajro noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Finnish
4 entries- kokko noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- nuotio noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- rovio noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- rovio noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
French
2 entries- bûcher noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
- feu de joie noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Galician
4 entries- cacharela noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- fogueira noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- fogueira noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
- lumeirada noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
German
2 entries- Freudenfeuer noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- Scheiterhaufen noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Hebrew
2 entries- מְדוּרָה noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- מְדוּרָה noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Hindi
1 entries- अलाव noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Hungarian
2 entries- máglya noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
- örömtűz noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Icelandic
2 entries- bál noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- varðeldur noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Irish
2 entries- tine chnámh noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- tine chnámh noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Italian
3 entries- falò noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- falò noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
- rogo noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Japanese
4 entries- かがり火 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- たき火 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 焚き火 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 篝火 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Kaitag
2 entries- гургума́й noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- цӏа noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Korean
2 entries- 모닥불 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 화톳불 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Latvian
1 entries- ugunskurs noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Lithuanian
2 entries- laužas noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- laužas noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Lü
1 entries- ᦂᦸᧂᦺᦝ noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Macedonian
1 entries- логорски оган noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Magahi
2 entries- 𑂃𑂪𑂰𑂫 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- 𑂐𑂴𑂚𑂱 noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Maithili
4 entries- अलाव noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- घुड़ारी noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- घूड़ि noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- घूर noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Nandi
1 entries- korosio noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Norman
2 entries- feu d'jouaie noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- fouée noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bål noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bål noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Old English
1 entries- bæl noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Polish
2 entries- ognisko noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- stos noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Portuguese
2 entries- fogueira noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- fogueira noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Romanian
2 entries- foc de tabără noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- rug noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Russian
2 entries- костёр noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- костёр noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- lòmača noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- lòmača noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
- ло̀мача noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- ло̀мача noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Slovak
1 entries- táborák noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Slovene
1 entries- kres noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Spanish
2 entries- fogata noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- hoguera noun (fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items)
Swedish
3 entries- brasa noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- bål noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- lägereld noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Thai
1 entries- กองไฟ noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Turkish
1 entries- şenlik ateşi noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Ukrainian
2 entries- бага́ття noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- во́гнище noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Welsh
2 entries- coelcerth noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
- goddaith noun (large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal)
Sample sentences
41 total sentences available.
We stayed around the bonfire telling jokes and horror stories.
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Let's build a bonfire!
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Tom and Mary made a bonfire on the beach.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.