pyre
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9.0
- noun
- /paɪər/
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pira funeraria
- Siegfried dies and Brünnhilde throws herself on his funeral pyre.
- funeral pyre
And then Stead has this beautiful expression which is the full expression of an emotion is the funeral pyre of that emotion.
- And then Stead has this beautiful expression which is the full expression of an emotion is the funeral pyre of that emotion.
Examples
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After death, they generally set bodies on the pyre and burn them.
Academic text (2007) -
Build me a funeral pyre.
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The dead man was laid on the ground while the pyre was built.
Fiction book (1996) -
Behind him, smoke from the pyre rises into the sky.
Fiction book (1993) -
Our bodies burned in a ritual pyre.
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Make ready this heretic's pyre.
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When the parade arrives at the cremation site, the pyre is prepared.
Academic text (2007) -
They burned his body on a giant pyre and then scattered his ashes over Cabrini-Green.
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Hector: There are so many piles of bodies with no one to light their funeral pyres!
Fiction book (2002) -
They built a traditional pyre for the cremation ceremony near the river.
Synonyms
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8.2
A pile of wood where a dead body is burned in Hindu or Buddhist funerals
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Pyre comes from the old Greek root pyr, which means 'fire'. So a pyre is literally a pile of wood made to burn a dead body at a funeral, which is why the word means what it does today.