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# pyramid

«pyramid» in Mova's school dictionary: **a solid shape with a flat bottom (base) and sides shaped…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (pyramid, pyramids)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A pyramid is a solid shape with a flat bottom (base) and sides shaped like triangles that meet at a point at the top. A square pyramid has 5 faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#m1)

2) The Pyramids of Egypt are huge old stone buildings of this shape, made as tombs for kings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#m2)

3) A pyramid is also a pile of things in rows that get smaller towards the top. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths: a solid shape with faces, edges and corners (vertices) to count; also a stack of things in rows that get smaller to the top, so add the rows. In history: the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt were built thousands of years ago. In science: a food pyramid shows which foods to eat most. Phrases: square pyramid, triangular pyramid, the Great Pyramid, food pyramid.

### examples

- A square pyramid has 5 faces. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x1)
- He built a pyramid of cans with 4 in the bottom row. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x2)
- Each row of the pyramid has one fewer block. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x3)
- How many edges does a square pyramid have? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x4)
- The ancient Egyptians built pyramids for their kings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x5)
- A triangular pyramid has 4 faces, all triangles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x6)
- The cheerleaders made a human pyramid. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x7)
- The food pyramid shows we need lots of fruit and vegetables. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x8)
- Then I buried them beneath a pyramid of sand, which covers them all. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/#x9)

### note

Countable. A pyramid is named after the shape of its base: square pyramid, triangular pyramid. A shape word: count faces, edges, corners. In a stacked pyramid each row is one less, so add the rows. Trap: a square pyramid has 5 faces, 8 edges and 5 corners. Trap: a cone is not a pyramid (its base is a circle).

### In the corpora

- [The last mammoths lived on a small Arctic island until about 4,000 years ago, when the pyramids of Egypt were already built.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/385-ice-age-ukraine-and-europe-cave-bears-cave-lions-the-siberian-unicorn-and-mammoth-bone-houses/20/)
- [Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the Great Pyramid.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/5-ancient-egypt-the-nile-and-the-pharaohs/16/)
- [That one belief explains the pyramids, the mummies and much of what we know about them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/1/)
- [Later pharaohs were buried in hidden rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings, because robbers could easily find the pyramids.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/6-ancient-egypt-pyramids-mummies-and-hieroglyphs/14/)
- [Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid of Giza.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/19-kings-queens-and-emperors/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «pyramid» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/pyramid/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.