Definitions for pyres

pyres pyre

Spelling: [pahyuh r]
IPA: /paɪər/

Pyres is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in pyres (eprsy).

Definitions for pyres

noun

  1. a pile or heap of wood or other combustible material.
  2. such a pile for burning a dead body, especially as part of a funeral rite, as in India.

Origin of pyres

1650-60; Latin pyra Greek pyrá hearth, funeral pile

Examples for pyres

But I do not altogether like the idea of building his pyre just here.

Phyllis dropped down in front of this door and made her second pyre.

And from the ruins of the pyre stepped forth a magnificent bird.

Behind him he heard the sticks snapping as the Phoenix mounted its pyre.

Surely it is the smoke of the pyre on which the martyrs have but now perished!

The pyre of a man is fired at the head and of a woman at the foot.

And yet, when it came to the point, Max hesitated to give the order to fire the pyre.

The pyre became wrapped in flames, the Warlock began to burn.

Spectators took photographs of the pyre on their mobile phones.

Thrown into the Middle East pyre, the Zionism-racism charge has been an accelerant, angering, alienating, polarizing both sides.

Word Value for pyres
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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