Definitions from Wiktionary (bonfire)
▸ noun: A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
▸ noun: A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
▸ verb: (ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
▸ verb: (intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
Bonfire Night,
bonfire nights,
bonfire toffee,
The Bonfire of the Vanities,
Bonfire of the vanities,
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▸ noun: A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
▸ noun: A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
▸ noun: (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
▸ noun: (obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
▸ verb: (transitive)
▸ verb: To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
▸ verb: (ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
▸ verb: (obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
▸ verb: (intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
Similar:
balefire,
signal fire,
burnfire,
blaze,
forest fire,
fire,
inferno,
bale,
open fire,
firebrand,
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