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Definition: Pyre |
PyreNoun1. Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "pyre" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
Etymology: Pyre \Pyre\, noun. [Latin expression pure, Greek, from fire. See Fire.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: PyreSynonym: funeral pyre (n). (additional references) |
| 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: Pyre |
| English words defined with "pyre": Funeral pile ♦ Pyral ♦ suttee. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "pyre": Pyrites. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | And our love become a funeral pyre ("Light My Fire"; performing artist: The Doors) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Jala Do: Torch the Pyre (1994) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | The funeral pyre of the cities. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Pyre" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Pyre" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 55 | 45,713 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "pyre": funeral pyre. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
funeral pyre | 9 |
pyre | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "pyre"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | turrë e druve. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محرقة الجثث. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | клада за изгаряне на мъртвец, погребален огън. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pohřební hranice. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | توده هیزم مخصوص اتش زدن جسدمرده , توده (Aggregate, Barrow, Bloc, Block, Bulk, Clot, Cob, Congeries, Gross, Heap, Hill, Lump, Mass, Midden, Oodles, Pile, Rick, Riffraff, Shock, Stack, Volume, Wad). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | rovio. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | funéraire, bûcher. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | scheiterhaufen (funeral pile, pile, pyre funeral, stake, woodpile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σορόσ προσ καύσιν, νεκρική πυρά, πυρά (pile). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | halotti máglya. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pira. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | aile oanluckee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yrepay pira funerária (balefire, flashlight). (various references) rug (dewberry, stake). (various references) погребальный костер (pile). (various references) lomača (bonfire, stake). (various references) pira. (various references) bål (body, bonfire, bon-fire, bowl, bowl (to drink), cup, fire, pile, punch, torso, trunk). (various references) กองฟืน. (various references) ölü yakılan odun yığını (funeral pyre). (various references) похоронне вогнище. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | pyra. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | amasa, amasae, amasai, amasam, ara, arabes, arabum, araceum, arad, arae, aram, ararum, aras, aree, asa, asadiam, asaiam, asam, asamian, aseas, asum, gerarae, pyra, sisara, sisarae, sisaram. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "pyre": pyrene, pyrenes, pyrenoid, pyrenoids, pyres, pyrethrin, pyrethrins, pyrethroid, pyrethroids, pyrethrum, pyrethrums, pyretic, pyrexia, pyrexial, pyrexias, pyrexic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "pyre": antipyreses, antipyresis, antipyretic, antipyretics, apyretic, benzoapyrene, benzoapyrenes, copyread, copyreader, copyreaders, copyreading, copyreads, empyreal, empyrean, empyreans, hyperpyrexia, hyperpyrexias. (additional references) | |
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"Pyre" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: iyre, kyre, Nyree, Nyren, peyer, phr, Phyfe, phyre, phywe, piere, Pieri, piero, pira, pire, piret, pirge, Piro, Pirro, pitre, Pivra, piyer, plyr, pnre, poyer, Ppru, prye, pryne, pryo, ptyr, puyer, pyar, Pyer, pyge, pyhrric, pyke, pyle, Pymer, pyr, pyra, pyrea, pyred, pyrene, pyrg, pyrk, pyrne, pyro, pyron, pyrs, pyrt, pyrum, Pyry, ype, yper, yre. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words ending with "yre": Byre, lyre. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: prey. | |
| Words within the letters "e-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: per, pry, pye, rep, rye, yep. | |
-2 letters: er, pe, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: apery, crepy, hyper, payer, peery, perdy, perky, perry, plyer, prexy, preys, pryer, pyres, repay, reply, ropey. | |
+2 letters: creepy, crepey, cypher, cypres, drapey, dupery, empery, expiry, grapey, gripey, gypper, japery, mopery, napery, osprey, papery, parley, payers, pearly, peltry, penury, peroxy, pertly, pinery, player, plyers, poetry, popery, prayed, prayer, prepay, preppy, pretty, preyed, preyer, pricey, pryers, purely, purvey, pyrene, pyrite, pyrone, pyrope, recopy, repays, replay, retype, ripely, ropery, sphery, spryer, sypher, typier, yapper, yauper, yawper, yelper, zephyr. | |
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