Usually means: Structure for burning bodies ceremonially.
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  1. pyre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pyre: Merriam-Webster
  3. pyre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pyre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pyre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pyre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pyre, pyre: Wordnik
  8. pyre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pyre: Wiktionary
  10. pyre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pyre: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pyre: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pyre, pyre: Dictionary.com
  14. pyre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pyre: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pyre (character), Pyre (disambiguation), Pyre (novel), Pyre (video game), Pyre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pyre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pyre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pyre: Rhymezone
  20. pyre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pyre: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pyre: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pyre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pyre: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pyre: The Limited Encyclopedia of Grave Terminology

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  1. pyre: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pyre)

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

Similar:
funeral pyre, pile, retort, ashpit, woodpile, firepit, dustpile, shitpile, burner, junkpile, more...

Opposite:
fire

Types:
bonfire, funeral pyre, more...

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funeral pyre, more...

Adjectives:
funeral, great, own, huge, blazing, flaming, same, burning, sacrificial, funereal, vast

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Similar:
funeral pyre, pile, retort, ashpit, woodpile, firepit, dustpile, shitpile, burner, junkpile, more...

Opposite:
fire

Types:
bonfire, funeral pyre, more...

Phrases:
funeral pyre, more...

Adjectives:
funeral, great, own, huge, blazing, flaming, same, burning, sacrificial, funereal, vast

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     gold,     crimson, more...



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