The Cairn terrier is a relatively small dog, with Scottish origins.
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Cairn
//kɛən//
Synonyms for "cairn" (70 found)
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9 entriesis a
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54 translations across 30 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 石冢 noun (monument)
Czech
1 entries- mužik noun (landmark)
Danish
3 entries- røse noun (monument)
- stendynge noun (monument)
- varde noun (landmark)
Dutch
1 entries- steenman noun (landmark)
Esperanto
1 entries- kairno noun (monument)
Estonian
1 entries- kivikuhil noun (monument)
Faroese
2 entries- dys noun (monument)
- varði noun (landmark)
Finnish
2 entries- hautakumpu noun (monument)
- kummeli (seamark) noun (landmark)
French
2 entries- cairn noun (monument)
- montjoie noun (landmark)
Galician
3 entries- carnoedo noun (monument)
- milladoiro noun (monument)
- milladoiro noun (landmark)
German
4 entries- Steindaube noun (landmark)
- Steinhügel noun (monument)
- Steinhügel noun (landmark)
- Steinmännchen noun (landmark)
Greek
1 entries- σωρόλιθος noun (landmark)
Hebrew
1 entries- גַּלְעֵד noun (monument)
Hungarian
1 entries- kőhalom noun (landmark)
Icelandic
2 entries- dys noun (monument)
- varða noun (landmark)
Irish
2 entries- carn noun (monument)
- leacht noun (monument)
Italian
1 entries- ometto noun (landmark)
Japanese
2 entries- ケアン noun (monument)
- ケルン noun (monument)
Korean
1 entries- 돌무지 noun (monument)
Malay
1 entries- batu tanda noun (monument)
Māori
2 entries- hāpapa noun (monument)
- hāpapa noun (landmark)
Norwegian
2 entries- røys noun (landmark)
- varde noun (landmark)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gravrøys noun (monument)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- gravrøys noun (monument)
Old Norse
1 entries- hreysi noun (landmark)
Portuguese
2 entries- moledro noun (monument)
- moledro noun (landmark)
Russian
2 entries- каирн noun (monument)
- тур noun (landmark)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- càrn noun (monument)
- càrn noun (landmark)
Spanish
3 entries- mojón noun (monument)
- montículo noun (monument)
- punto de referencia noun (monument)
Swedish
3 entries- gravröse noun (monument)
- röse noun (monument)
- stenröse noun (monument)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
At the edge of the haunted moor stood a cairn said to mark the grave of a forgotten king.
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"Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
Source: wiktionary
After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.
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