bonfire night

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   effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned on this night

   SynonymsGuy Fawkes Night

   BroaderNovember 5

Questions about bonfire night

What does bonfire night mean?

bonfire night means "effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned on this night".

What is another word for bonfire night?

Close synonyms include Guy Fawkes Night. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bonfire night a common word?

bonfire night is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.