pyre

Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪɚ/

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

Etymology

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

In classic literature

Synonyms

funeral pyre

Semantic network

Broader (hypernyms)
pile

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