Definitions for pyre

pyre pyre

Spelling: [pahyuh r]
IPA: /paɪər/

Pyre is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in pyre (epry).

Definitions for pyre

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 pyre

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

Examples for pyre

Spectators took photographs of the pyre on their mobile phones.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Word Value for pyre
Scrable

9

Words with friends

9

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