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pyre

Pronunciation: /ˈpaɪɚ/

The English word “pyre” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

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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