bon·fire
 bonfire
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- pronunciation:
- ban
faIr
- features:
- Word History, Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition: |
a large, outdoor fire, often made for entertainment or warmth.
We're going to have a bonfire on Halloween night.They got some old wooden pallets and threw them on the bonfire. |
| related words: |
fire |
In the English spoken in the 1400s, a
bone-fire was a fire that used bones for fuel rather than wood. This early English word is where our word
bonfire came from.