pyre

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
    — The villagers built a funeral pyre to honor their dead.
  2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.
    — Flames rose high from the pyre in the night sky.

词形变化

pyres plural

词汇关系

衍生词
funeral pyre
相关词
empyreal empyrean pyr- pyral pyro-

词源

Learned borrowing from Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek πυρά (purá), from πῦρ (pûr, “fire”). Doublet of fire.
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