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Synonyms for bonfire

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bon-fahyuh r

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɒnˌfaɪər

Définition of bonfire

Origin : 1550s, from Middle English banefire (late 15c.), originally a fire in which bones were burned. See bone (n.) + fire (n.).

noun large prepared fire

Example sentences :

Let us get to windward and see what they are doing on the other side of the bonfire.
Extract from : « Earth's Holocaust (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As if he were not capable of controlling a raft or a bonfire!
Extract from : « The Foolish Lovers » by St. John G. Ervine

She had a black smudge from the end of the beanpole, which had been in a bonfire, across her forehead.
Extract from : « W. A. G.'s Tale » by Margaret Turnbull

If I should try just once to tell her what she ought to do she'd flare up like a bonfire.
Extract from : « Kent Knowles: Quahaug » by Joseph C. Lincoln

Her face flamed at him, the bonfire's light when prejudice is burned.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

Then we had triumphal arches, and bonfire illuminations, and addresses.
Extract from : « The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. II (of II) » by Charles James Lever

There was a bonfire at one side, and she thought she saw a tent.
Extract from : « Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies » by Alice B. Emerson

As he passed along he saw the bonfire in which his books were being burned.
Extract from : « History of the Moravian Church » by J. E. Hutton

We was to go up to the hill to see them building the bonfire.
Extract from : « Auld Licht Idylls » by J. M. Barrie

The peasants took what arms there were in the municipality, and made a bonfire of the papers.
Extract from : « No Surrender! » by G. A. Henty

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