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Plural of pyre

regular plural

The plural of pyre is pyres.

Forms of pyre

Singularpyre /ˈpaɪɚ/
Pluralpyres
Countablecountable

Pyres in a sentence

  • The Lemakot in the north strangled widows and threw them into the cremation pyres of their dead husbands.2011, Dominic Smith, Bright and Distant Shores, page 106. From the entry jerk

Meaning of pyre

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

Full definition of pyre

Questions about the plural of pyre

What is the plural of pyre?
The plural of pyre is pyres.
Is pyre countable?
Pyre is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pyre (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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