Word a Day
fire
What does fire mean?
fire (noun): the event of something burning (often destructive).
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use fire in a sentence?
- They lost everything in the fire. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
Where does fire come from?
From Middle English fyr, from Old English fȳr (“fire”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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the event of something burning (often destructive)
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