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Pyre vs Ayre - What's the difference?

pyre | ayre |

As nouns the difference between pyre and ayre

is that pyre is a funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned while ayre is a narrow bar of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a sandbank or ayre can be (archaic) air.

pyre

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
  • :* For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare. - Homer Iliad, p. 31
  • Any heap or pile of combustibles.

    • Related terms

    * empyreal, empyrean

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    External links

    * (wikipedia "pyre")

    ayre

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • an area of the Isle of Man

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