funeral pyre

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   wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite

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Questions about funeral pyre

What does funeral pyre mean?

funeral pyre means "wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite".

What is another word for funeral pyre?

Close synonyms include pyre. 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 funeral pyre a common word?

funeral pyre 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.