Definitions for cairn

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Spelling: [kairn]
IPA: /kɛərn/

Cairn is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in cairn (acinr).

Definitions for cairn

noun

  1. a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.

Origin of cairn

1525-35; earlier carn Scots Gaelic: pile of stones; perhaps akin to horn

Examples for cairn

The remainder pushed on to Cape Herschel, and left a record in a cairn.

Clawbonny and Bell, armed with their pickaxes made for the cairn.

True, it was the only friend I had then; but for it an attempt to have built the cairn would have been vain.

Presently there loomed before him, gleaming in the moonlight, the cairn.

In a cairn on the point Fitzjames placed a brief record, and that is all.

Clawbonny and Bell walked to the cairn with picks in their hands.

Build up the cairn, ye active youths, for victory is with us.

He would begin to-morrow with the cairn for the rock-plants.

Each man, by Charles's order, carried a stone to lay on Manfred's cairn.

But father has just lived in his own house of cairn Ferris all his life.

Word Value for cairn
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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