pyre

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.

   The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.

2. 2
   noun

   Any heap or pile of combustibles.

   Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.

3. 3
   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.