Meaning

4 senses
  1. A large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal.

    Freudenfeuer

    костёрkostjór

    бага́ттяbaháttja, во́гнищеvóhnyšče

    a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration

  2. 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.

    Scheiterhaufen

    костёрkostjór

  3. (figuratively)Something like a bonfire (sense 1 or 2) in heat, destructiveness, ferocity, etc.

  4. (obsolete)A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.

Examples

32 sentences
  1. Don't get too close to the bonfire.

  2. When is the bonfire going to be lit?

  3. Are you sure you want to park that close to the bonfire?

  4. Tom started a bonfire on the beach.

    ruТом разжёг на пляже костёр. — marafon

  5. Tom made a bonfire on the beach.

    deTom errichtete am Strand ein Freudenfeuer. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal:
Русский
By meaning 1
large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
large, controlled outdoor fire lit to celebrate something or as a signal:
fire lit outdoors to burn unwanted items:

Forms

plural: bonfires
Singularbonfire
Pluralbonfires

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration:balefire

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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