bonfire

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

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

   “O thou art a perpetuall triumph, an euerlaſting bonefire light, […]”

2. isim 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.

   “I had thought to haue let in ſome of all Profeſſions, that goe the Primroſe way to th'euerlasting Bonfire.”

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

   “And one thing I like in you, novv that you ſee / The bonefire of your Ladies ſtate burnt out, / You give it over, doe you not?”

4. isim A fire lit to cremate a dead body; a funeral pyre.

   “Now wil the Chriſtian miſcreants be glad, / Ringing with ioy their ſuperſtitious belles: / And making bonfires for my ouerthrow. / But ere I die thoſe foule Idolaters / Shall make me bonfires with their filthy bones, […]”

5. fiil To destroy (something) by, or as if by, burning on a bonfire; (more generally) to burn or set alight.

   “[L]ike the Christmas joke of snapdragons for children, the very liquor was to be bonfired also, and drank burning.”

6. fiil To fire (pottery) using a bonfire.

   “The pots are formed by the coiling method and bonfired using palm fronds, grass and sometimes dung.”

7. fiil To start a bonfire in (a place); to light up (a place) with a bonfire.

   “They almost carried him [the king] into the palace on their shoulders; and at night the whole town was illuminated and bonfired.”

8. fiil To make, or celebrate around, a bonfire.

   “Seems as if one day we are all bar-b-quing, swimming, jetskiing, bonfiring, and the next thing you know everyone is gone, leaving the house empty (except for the sad pile of damp towels and a refrigerator full of sloppy Jo's).”