Definitions for pyramid

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pyramid pyr·a·mid

Spelling: [pir-uh-mid]

IPA: /ˈpɪr ə mɪd/

Pyramid is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 184 anagrams from letters in pyramid (adimpry).

Definitions for pyramid

noun

1. Architecture. (in ancient Egypt) a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb. (in ancient Egypt and pre-Columbian Central America) a quadrilateral masonry mass, stepped and sharply sloping, used as a tomb or a platform for a temple.
2. anything of such form.
3. a number of persons or things arranged or heaped up in this manner:
4. a system or structure resembling a pyramid, as in hierarchical form.
5. Geometry. a solid having a polygonal base, and triangular sides that meet in a point.
6. Crystallography. any form the planes of which intersect all three of the axes.
7. Anatomy, Zoology. any of various parts or structures of pyramidal form.
8. Also called pyramid scheme. a scheme that pyramids, as in speculating on the stock exchange or writing a chain letter.
9. a tree pruned or trained to grow in conical form.
10. pyramids, (used with a singular verb) British. a form of pocket billiards for two or four players in which 15 colored balls, initially placed in the form of a triangle, are pocketed with one white cue ball.

verb (used with object)

1. to arrange in the form of a pyramid.
2. to raise or increase (costs, wages, etc.) by adding amounts gradually.
3. to cause to increase at a steady and progressive rate:
4. Stock Exchange. (in speculating on margin) to operate in, or employ in, pyramiding.

verb (used without object)

1. to take, or become disposed in, the form of a pyramid.
2. Stock Exchange. (in speculating on margin) to enlarge one's operations in a series of transactions, as on a continued rise or decline in price, by using profits in transactions not yet closed, and consequently not yet in hand, as margin for additional buying or selling in the next transaction.
3. to increase gradually, as with the completion of each phase:

Origin of pyramid

1350-1400; Latin pȳramid- (stem of pȳramis) Greek pȳramís; replacing Middle English pyramis Latin, as above

Examples for pyramid

Finally, a pyramid constructed from Germany army helmets in New York City in 1918.

As the pyramid grew, the teen struggled to manage his responsibilities at home, in school and with his sham company.

When you take away the top of the pyramid, it literally looks like a different shape.

Moreover, the pyramid, which is the figure of fire, is more cutting than any other.

If a pyramid or obelisk mould, lift it carefully off the top.

And suppose I set fire to this pyramid with a candle—will she burn up?

Someone had put our lanterns on the top of this pyramid shrine.

“This pyramid monster hotel will monopolize all the business in the city,” CEO Reto Wittwer said.

At the top of the pyramid is AQIM, under which are a myriad of different groups each with their own agendas.

Far beyond the pyramid the volcanoes are seen in their lonely grandeur.