bush firenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈbʊʃ ˌfaɪər/us/ˈbʊʃ ˌfaɪr/a fire burning in the bush (= a wild area of land) that is difficult to control and sometimes spreads quickly
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Fire & flame
- beacon
- blaze
- bonfire
- brand
- campfire
- conflagration
- fire
- fireball
- firepit
- firestorm
- flame
- flare
- inferno
- open fire
- open fireplace
- pilot
- spark
- wildfire
Examples from literature
- That's why wattle always springs up in profusion after there's been a bush fire.
- The saplings had been killed by a bush fire, and a hurricane, which must have swept over the country some years ago, had broken and uprooted the larger trees, which lay all to the west and north-west.
- The sky was covered by a thin haze, occasioned by extensive bush fires.
- There's been a bush fire here at some period during the last twenty years.
- There's not enough timber here to have a real bush fire.