PYRE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

Synonyms:

funeral pyre; pyre

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("pyre" is a kind of...):

agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)

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