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Cairns

//kɛənz// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    A city and port in Queensland, Australia, named after William Cairns.
  3. 3
    A local government area in northern Queensland; in full, the Cairns Region.
Noun
  1. 1
    plural of cairn form-of, plural

Etymology

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots cairn, describing a manmade heap or mound of stones. * As an Irish surname, from Ó Ciaráin, Anglicized as Kieran and Kearns, sometimes conflated with the Scottish above.

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