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say it: kern
cairn is a noun meaning "a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path". It is pronounced /ˈkɛɹn/ — kern. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path
small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cairn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.