pyre

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

For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31.

a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body
{n} a pile to be burnt, a funeral pile
A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which the dead are burned; hence, any pile to be burnt
A pyre is a high pile of wood built outside on which people burn a dead body or other things in a ceremony. a high pile of wood on which a dead body is placed to be burned in a funeral ceremony (pyra, from , from pyr )
{i} pile of flammable material (often used to cremate a dead body)
wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite
pyres
plural of pyre
pyre

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    Etymologie

    [ 'pIr ] (noun.) 1658. Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πῦρ (pūr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh₂ur. to fire.
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