Associations to the word «Pyre»

Wiktionary

PYRE, noun. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
PYRE, noun. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Dictionary definition

PYRE, noun. Wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats