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Definition: FUNERAL PILE |
FUNERAL PILE1. A structure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placed to be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre. -- Fu"ner*al*ly , adv. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Interment | Noun: interment, burial, sepulture; inhumation; obsequies, exequies; funeral, wake, pyre, funeral pile; cremation. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: FUNERAL PILE |
| Specialty definitions using "FUNERAL PILE": Hair devoted to Proserpine ♦ Myrra ♦ Sardanapalus. (references) |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Mill fires were lighted at the funeral pile of slavery. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "FUNERAL PILE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | Scheiterhaufen (pile, pyre, pyre funeral, stake, woodpile). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | uneralfay ilepay | ||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | acervi, acervis, acervo, acervorum, acervos, acervum, acervus, pyra. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-f-i-l-l-n-p-r-u" | |
-1 letter: painfuller. | |
-3 letters: flanerie, fraulein, funereal, perilune, perineal, prunella, prunelle, refallen. | |
-4 letters: aliener, elapine, failure, ferulae, filaree, firepan, flaneur, flareup, frenula, fueller, funeral, leafier, pailful, painful, pallier, perilla, perinea, pilular, plainer, pleurae, pleural, praline, prefile, prelife, puerile, purline, ralline, repanel. | |
-5 letters: aliner, allure, alpine, earful, eupnea, faerie, faille, fainer, fallen, faller, feline, feller, feriae, ferial. | |
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