bonfire
IPA: bˈɑnfaɪɝ
noun
- A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.
- A fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items; originally (historical), heretics or other offenders, or banned books; now, generally agricultural or garden waste, or rubbish.
- (figuratively) Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.
- (obsolete) A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.
verb
- (transitive)
- To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.
- (ceramics) To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.
- (obsolete) To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.
- (intransitive, rare) To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.
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Examples of "bonfire" in Sentences
- Many of the local bonfire societies join the procession.
- Bonfire is the name of the event and the name of the structure.
- The entire camp gathers in front of the bonfire to watch it burn.
- The bonfire ceremony differs depending on the location in Punjab.
- A bonfire is lit in the main squares of the villages and colonies.
- Triumphantly together they seize the torch and ignite the bonfire.
- Bonfire night is to celebrate the saving of the Houses of Parliament.
- In the late evening, a large bonfire is held in the centre of the park.
- Festivities are centered on the use of fireworks and the lighting of bonfires.
- The bonfire also included the tradition of the burning of the Westwood Warrior.
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