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FUNERAL PYRE

Dictionary entry overview: What does funeral pyre mean?

• FUNERAL PYRE (noun)
The noun FUNERAL PYRE has 1 sense:

1. wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

Familiarity information: FUNERAL PYRE used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• FUNERAL PYRE (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

funeral pyre; pyre

Hypernyms ("funeral pyre" is a kind of...):

agglomerate; cumulation; cumulus; heap; mound; pile (a collection of objects laid on top of each other)

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