cairn

1. 1.

   a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path

   Broadermarker
2. 2.

   small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland

   Synonymscairn terrier

   Broaderterrier

Other forms of cairn

plural

cairns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cairn

What does cairn mean?

cairn means "a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cairn?

cairn has 1 syllable: cairn. In IPA it is /ˈkɛɹn/.

What is another word for cairn?

Close synonyms include cairn terrier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cairn a common word?

cairn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.