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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley