BONFIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bonfire mean? 

• BONFIRE (noun)
  The noun BONFIRE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: BONFIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BONFIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

balefire; bonfire

Hypernyms ("bonfire" is a kind of...):

fire (the event of something burning (often destructive))

 Context examples 

On the same day, December 13, adding great warmth to your bonfire of love will be your secondary ruler Mars in communication with Neptune, planet of unconditional love.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Laurie was equally impracticable, and would have had bonfires, skyrockets, and triumphal arches, if he had had his own way.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"Is it, then, a bonfire just kindled?" I questioned.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It was red and hot, and now and again it was a little darkened—as it were, the embers of a bonfire smouldering.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy's bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)