cairn terrier

1. 1.

   small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland

   Synonymscairn

   Broaderterrier

Questions about cairn terrier

What does cairn terrier mean?

cairn terrier means "small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland".

What is another word for cairn terrier?

Close synonyms include cairn. 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 terrier a common word?

cairn terrier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.