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Synonyms for pyramid

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pir-uh-mid
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɪr ə mɪd

Définition of pyramid

Origin :
  • 1550s (earlier in Latin form piramis, late 14c.), from French pyramide (Old French piramide "obelisk, stela," 12c.), from Latin pyramides, plural of pyramis "one of the pyramids of Egypt," from Greek pyramis (plural pyramides) "a pyramid," apparently an alteration of Egyptian pimar "pyramid." Financial sense is from 1911. Related: Pyramidal.
  • noun monument
Example sentences :
  • And suppose I set fire to this pyramid with a candle—will she burn up?
  • Extract from : « Tom Sawyer Abroad » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  • If a pyramid or obelisk mould, lift it carefully off the top.
  • Extract from : « Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches » by Eliza Leslie
  • Someone had put our lanterns on the top of this pyramid shrine.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • Moreover, the pyramid, which is the figure of fire, is more cutting than any other.
  • Extract from : « Timaeus » by Plato
  • Far beyond the pyramid the volcanoes are seen in their lonely grandeur.
  • Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
  • Comfort was the apex of the pyramid which is now crumbling away.
  • Extract from : « England and Germany » by Emile Joseph Dillon
  • She made the pyramid, and the reply was that the pocket-book had not been found by anyone.
  • Extract from : « The Memoires of Casanova, Complete » by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
  • The sun had risen half an hour when they neared the Pyramid.
  • Extract from : « At Aboukir and Acre » by George Alfred Henty
  • They did do the trick to Pyramid once, you know; but they'd never got him right since.
  • Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
  • They climbed the pyramid gingerly and stood unsteadily at its top.
  • Extract from : « Project Mastodon » by Clifford Donald Simak

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