Definition of cairn in English:

cairn

noun kɛːnkɛrn

1A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline.
（尤指小山顶或地平线上，作为纪念标志或陆标的）石堆
Example sentencesExamples
- After half a mile cross the expansive plateau to a high level lochan and the summit cairn.
- The artist states, in his essay, that plaques, cairns and non-sculptural markers were disqualified in favor of those that maintained the formal category of the vertical shaft.
- Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life.
- Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns.
- The travellers and their guide came to the last ridge that rose between them and the summit, where they could see a tumbled cairn of stones.
- Beautifully-crafted and rounded stones act as his cairn.
- After pottering around with compass in hand, I find the summit cairn and then get back off the mountain as quickly as possible, it's bloody cold up there.
- Twelve stone cairns decorate the otherwise bare summit of Castle Dow, a tree - clad hill which lies in the clench of the River Tay just south of Grandtully.
- I noticed a cairn of rocks piled up at the start of a rough side path.
- Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn.
- An entertaining tight-rope walk, especially where the ridge narrows considerably for its final few feet to the summit cairn.
- He removed thousands of stone tools from the landscape of south-eastern Australia, and in their place he erected stone cairns marking the paths of European explorers.
- This three-venue show documents temporary and permanent work at locations across the country based on the cairn, a pile of stones used as a memorial or trail marker.
- This path is indicated by a small cairn of stones.
- We climbed steeply over dark rocks to two high passes and, as is the custom, placed white stones on their cairns to ask for good luck and strength.
- On reaching the top, we find a small cairn of stones.
- The royal visitor's final duty was to lay the final stone to a cairn built outside the main entrance and to unveil a commemorative plaque.
- The trail meanders across the bizarre scene with stone cairns built to mark the way.
- Elation was to glimpse limp prayer flags and rough cairns with goat horns that marked the pass.
- There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
Synonyms
monument, shrine, mausoleum, cenotaph
1. 1.1 A prehistoric burial mound made of stones.
  史前石坟墩
  a chambered cairn
  Example sentencesExamples
  Scattered remnants and fragments of our ancient history are to be found abundantly in the North West in the form of cairns, dolmens and ring forts.
  Skara Brae is a well-preserved prehistoric village, Maes Howe the best of a series of impressive prehistoric burial cairns, and numerous brochs and settlements attest to the islands' Pictish and Viking periods.
  Nearby is the 350m Auchenlaich cairn - the longest megalithic burial cairn in Britain.
  In contrast, the Le Sauvage fields remain closely associated with prehistoric cairns, and some are overlain by Rivalte-type walls, so are at least pre-Medieval.
  South of the fort is a cross-ridge dyke, and in the area traversed by the path there are burial cairns and prehistoric field boundaries.
  While no one would claim that every ancient monument was built which such high technical specifications it does start to explain the odd location of a number of cairns and burial mounds.
  In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
  Unusually the cairn is named - Douglas's Cairn - and is believed to date from the Bronze Age.
  The main visible archaeological features are in stone, notably walls, cairns and trackways, with possible remains of a few rectangular buildings and burial cairns.
  Surviving monuments in the Kilmartin Valley include a ‘linear cemetery’ of Bronze Age cairns, several standing stones, a stone circle and numerous elaborate rock art panels.
  It soon became apparent that the row of large stones had defined the edge of a stone cairn covering a boat burial.
  Its most impressive prehistoric site, among a plethora of chambered tombs and cairns, is that of the Knap of Howar, a Neolithic farm building, believed to be the oldest standing structure in northern Europe.
  A chambered burial cairn known as Maeshowe is also being examined for potential damage as part of the study.
  Beyond the col, the track becomes steeper and you have to work a little harder to reach the summit of Mid Hill at 422m with its prehistoric burial cairn and view indicator.
  Caithness is well known to archaeologists for its Neolithic chambered burial cairns.
  Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
  There are hundreds of other chambered cairns and standing stones and several stone circles across the islands.
  I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins.
  Just 11 km away at Turf Knowe near Ingram, a cairn covering stone cists has been radiocarbon dated to c 2,200 BC.
  This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs.
  Synonyms
  memorial
2A small terrier of a breed with short legs, a longish body, and a shaggy coat.
凯恩㹴狗
Example sentencesExamples
- They are quite independent, but once you have had a cairn terrier that's it - you just fall in love with them.
- We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward.
- If the German Shepherd and Doberman stood on top in their numbers, the breeds like the wire-haired fox terrier, smooth-haired fox terrier, cairn terrier and Rhodesian Ridgeback were all loners.
- Much of the known early history of the cairn terrier, like that of the Skye terrier, centers on the island of Skye.
- The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie (who died of old age about 8 years back), he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason.
- They live with their cairn terrier, Sammy, in a house in Bridgehampton, Long Island, and an eighth-floor apartment on Central Park with his studio in the former basement laundry, meaning he can take the lift to work.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic carn.

Rhymes

Auvergne, bairn

Definition of cairn in US English:

cairn

nounkernkɛrn

1A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline.
（尤指小山顶或地平线上，作为纪念标志或陆标的）石堆
Example sentencesExamples
- Elation was to glimpse limp prayer flags and rough cairns with goat horns that marked the pass.
- This path is indicated by a small cairn of stones.
- The travellers and their guide came to the last ridge that rose between them and the summit, where they could see a tumbled cairn of stones.
- Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn.
- An entertaining tight-rope walk, especially where the ridge narrows considerably for its final few feet to the summit cairn.
- There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top!
- After pottering around with compass in hand, I find the summit cairn and then get back off the mountain as quickly as possible, it's bloody cold up there.
- The royal visitor's final duty was to lay the final stone to a cairn built outside the main entrance and to unveil a commemorative plaque.
- Beautifully-crafted and rounded stones act as his cairn.
- The artist states, in his essay, that plaques, cairns and non-sculptural markers were disqualified in favor of those that maintained the formal category of the vertical shaft.
- I noticed a cairn of rocks piled up at the start of a rough side path.
- The trail meanders across the bizarre scene with stone cairns built to mark the way.
- He removed thousands of stone tools from the landscape of south-eastern Australia, and in their place he erected stone cairns marking the paths of European explorers.
- Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns.
- On reaching the top, we find a small cairn of stones.
- We climbed steeply over dark rocks to two high passes and, as is the custom, placed white stones on their cairns to ask for good luck and strength.
- Twelve stone cairns decorate the otherwise bare summit of Castle Dow, a tree - clad hill which lies in the clench of the River Tay just south of Grandtully.
- Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life.
- After half a mile cross the expansive plateau to a high level lochan and the summit cairn.
- This three-venue show documents temporary and permanent work at locations across the country based on the cairn, a pile of stones used as a memorial or trail marker.
Synonyms
monument, shrine, mausoleum, cenotaph
1. 1.1 A prehistoric burial mound made of stones.
  史前石坟墩
  a chambered cairn
  Example sentencesExamples
  Nearby is the 350m Auchenlaich cairn - the longest megalithic burial cairn in Britain.
  It soon became apparent that the row of large stones had defined the edge of a stone cairn covering a boat burial.
  Skara Brae is a well-preserved prehistoric village, Maes Howe the best of a series of impressive prehistoric burial cairns, and numerous brochs and settlements attest to the islands' Pictish and Viking periods.
  South of the fort is a cross-ridge dyke, and in the area traversed by the path there are burial cairns and prehistoric field boundaries.
  In contrast, the Le Sauvage fields remain closely associated with prehistoric cairns, and some are overlain by Rivalte-type walls, so are at least pre-Medieval.
  Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
  Unusually the cairn is named - Douglas's Cairn - and is believed to date from the Bronze Age.
  A chambered burial cairn known as Maeshowe is also being examined for potential damage as part of the study.
  In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns.
  I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins.
  Beyond the col, the track becomes steeper and you have to work a little harder to reach the summit of Mid Hill at 422m with its prehistoric burial cairn and view indicator.
  While no one would claim that every ancient monument was built which such high technical specifications it does start to explain the odd location of a number of cairns and burial mounds.
  Just 11 km away at Turf Knowe near Ingram, a cairn covering stone cists has been radiocarbon dated to c 2,200 BC.
  The main visible archaeological features are in stone, notably walls, cairns and trackways, with possible remains of a few rectangular buildings and burial cairns.
  Surviving monuments in the Kilmartin Valley include a ‘linear cemetery’ of Bronze Age cairns, several standing stones, a stone circle and numerous elaborate rock art panels.
  There are hundreds of other chambered cairns and standing stones and several stone circles across the islands.
  Caithness is well known to archaeologists for its Neolithic chambered burial cairns.
  This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs.
  Its most impressive prehistoric site, among a plethora of chambered tombs and cairns, is that of the Knap of Howar, a Neolithic farm building, believed to be the oldest standing structure in northern Europe.
  Scattered remnants and fragments of our ancient history are to be found abundantly in the North West in the form of cairns, dolmens and ring forts.
  Synonyms
  memorial
2A small terrier of a breed with short legs, a longish body, and a shaggy coat.
凯恩㹴狗
Example sentencesExamples
- We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward.
- The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie (who died of old age about 8 years back), he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason.
- Much of the known early history of the cairn terrier, like that of the Skye terrier, centers on the island of Skye.
- They are quite independent, but once you have had a cairn terrier that's it - you just fall in love with them.
- If the German Shepherd and Doberman stood on top in their numbers, the breeds like the wire-haired fox terrier, smooth-haired fox terrier, cairn terrier and Rhodesian Ridgeback were all loners.
- They live with their cairn terrier, Sammy, in a house in Bridgehampton, Long Island, and an eighth-floor apartment on Central Park with his studio in the former basement laundry, meaning he can take the lift to work.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic carn.

单词	cairn
释义	Definition of cairn in English: cairn noun kɛːnkɛrn 1A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline. （尤指小山顶或地平线上，作为纪念标志或陆标的）石堆 Example sentencesExamples After half a mile cross the expansive plateau to a high level lochan and the summit cairn. The artist states, in his essay, that plaques, cairns and non-sculptural markers were disqualified in favor of those that maintained the formal category of the vertical shaft. Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life. Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns. The travellers and their guide came to the last ridge that rose between them and the summit, where they could see a tumbled cairn of stones. Beautifully-crafted and rounded stones act as his cairn. After pottering around with compass in hand, I find the summit cairn and then get back off the mountain as quickly as possible, it's bloody cold up there. Twelve stone cairns decorate the otherwise bare summit of Castle Dow, a tree - clad hill which lies in the clench of the River Tay just south of Grandtully. I noticed a cairn of rocks piled up at the start of a rough side path. Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn. An entertaining tight-rope walk, especially where the ridge narrows considerably for its final few feet to the summit cairn. He removed thousands of stone tools from the landscape of south-eastern Australia, and in their place he erected stone cairns marking the paths of European explorers. This three-venue show documents temporary and permanent work at locations across the country based on the cairn, a pile of stones used as a memorial or trail marker. This path is indicated by a small cairn of stones. We climbed steeply over dark rocks to two high passes and, as is the custom, placed white stones on their cairns to ask for good luck and strength. On reaching the top, we find a small cairn of stones. The royal visitor's final duty was to lay the final stone to a cairn built outside the main entrance and to unveil a commemorative plaque. The trail meanders across the bizarre scene with stone cairns built to mark the way. Elation was to glimpse limp prayer flags and rough cairns with goat horns that marked the pass. There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top! Synonyms monument, shrine, mausoleum, cenotaph 1.1 A prehistoric burial mound made of stones. 史前石坟墩 a chambered cairn Example sentencesExamples Scattered remnants and fragments of our ancient history are to be found abundantly in the North West in the form of cairns, dolmens and ring forts. Skara Brae is a well-preserved prehistoric village, Maes Howe the best of a series of impressive prehistoric burial cairns, and numerous brochs and settlements attest to the islands' Pictish and Viking periods. Nearby is the 350m Auchenlaich cairn - the longest megalithic burial cairn in Britain. In contrast, the Le Sauvage fields remain closely associated with prehistoric cairns, and some are overlain by Rivalte-type walls, so are at least pre-Medieval. South of the fort is a cross-ridge dyke, and in the area traversed by the path there are burial cairns and prehistoric field boundaries. While no one would claim that every ancient monument was built which such high technical specifications it does start to explain the odd location of a number of cairns and burial mounds. In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns. Unusually the cairn is named - Douglas's Cairn - and is believed to date from the Bronze Age. The main visible archaeological features are in stone, notably walls, cairns and trackways, with possible remains of a few rectangular buildings and burial cairns. Surviving monuments in the Kilmartin Valley include a ‘linear cemetery’ of Bronze Age cairns, several standing stones, a stone circle and numerous elaborate rock art panels. It soon became apparent that the row of large stones had defined the edge of a stone cairn covering a boat burial. Its most impressive prehistoric site, among a plethora of chambered tombs and cairns, is that of the Knap of Howar, a Neolithic farm building, believed to be the oldest standing structure in northern Europe. A chambered burial cairn known as Maeshowe is also being examined for potential damage as part of the study. Beyond the col, the track becomes steeper and you have to work a little harder to reach the summit of Mid Hill at 422m with its prehistoric burial cairn and view indicator. Caithness is well known to archaeologists for its Neolithic chambered burial cairns. Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation. There are hundreds of other chambered cairns and standing stones and several stone circles across the islands. I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins. Just 11 km away at Turf Knowe near Ingram, a cairn covering stone cists has been radiocarbon dated to c 2,200 BC. This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs. Synonyms memorial 2A small terrier of a breed with short legs, a longish body, and a shaggy coat. 凯恩㹴狗 Example sentencesExamples They are quite independent, but once you have had a cairn terrier that's it - you just fall in love with them. We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward. If the German Shepherd and Doberman stood on top in their numbers, the breeds like the wire-haired fox terrier, smooth-haired fox terrier, cairn terrier and Rhodesian Ridgeback were all loners. Much of the known early history of the cairn terrier, like that of the Skye terrier, centers on the island of Skye. The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie (who died of old age about 8 years back), he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason. They live with their cairn terrier, Sammy, in a house in Bridgehampton, Long Island, and an eighth-floor apartment on Central Park with his studio in the former basement laundry, meaning he can take the lift to work. Origin Late Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic carn. Rhymes Auvergne, bairn Definition of cairn in US English: cairn nounkernkɛrn 1A mound of rough stones built as a memorial or landmark, typically on a hilltop or skyline. （尤指小山顶或地平线上，作为纪念标志或陆标的）石堆 Example sentencesExamples Elation was to glimpse limp prayer flags and rough cairns with goat horns that marked the pass. This path is indicated by a small cairn of stones. The travellers and their guide came to the last ridge that rose between them and the summit, where they could see a tumbled cairn of stones. Stacking large slabs on one another against a spine of uprights within a revetment wall, seems a very effective way to create an illusion of a well built and solid cairn. An entertaining tight-rope walk, especially where the ridge narrows considerably for its final few feet to the summit cairn. There are several hillocks, but the actual summit has a good cairn to reassure you that you have indeed reached the top! After pottering around with compass in hand, I find the summit cairn and then get back off the mountain as quickly as possible, it's bloody cold up there. The royal visitor's final duty was to lay the final stone to a cairn built outside the main entrance and to unveil a commemorative plaque. Beautifully-crafted and rounded stones act as his cairn. The artist states, in his essay, that plaques, cairns and non-sculptural markers were disqualified in favor of those that maintained the formal category of the vertical shaft. I noticed a cairn of rocks piled up at the start of a rough side path. The trail meanders across the bizarre scene with stone cairns built to mark the way. He removed thousands of stone tools from the landscape of south-eastern Australia, and in their place he erected stone cairns marking the paths of European explorers. Now, their pyramid-shaped middens, or mussel-shell dumps, stand along the coastline like memorial cairns. On reaching the top, we find a small cairn of stones. We climbed steeply over dark rocks to two high passes and, as is the custom, placed white stones on their cairns to ask for good luck and strength. Twelve stone cairns decorate the otherwise bare summit of Castle Dow, a tree - clad hill which lies in the clench of the River Tay just south of Grandtully. Near the lake named for him in central Alberta, not far from the homestead where he raised his nine children, a stone cairn will honour his extraordinary life. After half a mile cross the expansive plateau to a high level lochan and the summit cairn. This three-venue show documents temporary and permanent work at locations across the country based on the cairn, a pile of stones used as a memorial or trail marker. Synonyms monument, shrine, mausoleum, cenotaph 1.1 A prehistoric burial mound made of stones. 史前石坟墩 a chambered cairn Example sentencesExamples Nearby is the 350m Auchenlaich cairn - the longest megalithic burial cairn in Britain. It soon became apparent that the row of large stones had defined the edge of a stone cairn covering a boat burial. Skara Brae is a well-preserved prehistoric village, Maes Howe the best of a series of impressive prehistoric burial cairns, and numerous brochs and settlements attest to the islands' Pictish and Viking periods. South of the fort is a cross-ridge dyke, and in the area traversed by the path there are burial cairns and prehistoric field boundaries. In contrast, the Le Sauvage fields remain closely associated with prehistoric cairns, and some are overlain by Rivalte-type walls, so are at least pre-Medieval. Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation. Unusually the cairn is named - Douglas's Cairn - and is believed to date from the Bronze Age. A chambered burial cairn known as Maeshowe is also being examined for potential damage as part of the study. In prehistoric Britain early agricultural communities deposited their dead in communal, highly visible locations such as chambered tombs, barrows and burial cairns. I grew up in some of the more remote parts of Scotland with undiluted access to history and myth amid standing stones, cairns, tombs and ruins. Beyond the col, the track becomes steeper and you have to work a little harder to reach the summit of Mid Hill at 422m with its prehistoric burial cairn and view indicator. While no one would claim that every ancient monument was built which such high technical specifications it does start to explain the odd location of a number of cairns and burial mounds. Just 11 km away at Turf Knowe near Ingram, a cairn covering stone cists has been radiocarbon dated to c 2,200 BC. The main visible archaeological features are in stone, notably walls, cairns and trackways, with possible remains of a few rectangular buildings and burial cairns. Surviving monuments in the Kilmartin Valley include a ‘linear cemetery’ of Bronze Age cairns, several standing stones, a stone circle and numerous elaborate rock art panels. There are hundreds of other chambered cairns and standing stones and several stone circles across the islands. Caithness is well known to archaeologists for its Neolithic chambered burial cairns. This menhir is surrounded by a network of enigmatic cairns and chambered warrior tombs. Its most impressive prehistoric site, among a plethora of chambered tombs and cairns, is that of the Knap of Howar, a Neolithic farm building, believed to be the oldest standing structure in northern Europe. Scattered remnants and fragments of our ancient history are to be found abundantly in the North West in the form of cairns, dolmens and ring forts. Synonyms memorial 2A small terrier of a breed with short legs, a longish body, and a shaggy coat. 凯恩㹴狗 Example sentencesExamples We had an awesome cairn terrier / Jack Russell mix that was preternaturally intelligent, capable of stunning tricks (including climbing trees), but he wouldn't fetch a stick for any reward. The first, which apparently looked like my old cairn terrier Geordie (who died of old age about 8 years back), he bought to give to me, but later gave it spontaneously to his Aunt for no real discernible reason. Much of the known early history of the cairn terrier, like that of the Skye terrier, centers on the island of Skye. They are quite independent, but once you have had a cairn terrier that's it - you just fall in love with them. If the German Shepherd and Doberman stood on top in their numbers, the breeds like the wire-haired fox terrier, smooth-haired fox terrier, cairn terrier and Rhodesian Ridgeback were all loners. They live with their cairn terrier, Sammy, in a house in Bridgehampton, Long Island, and an eighth-floor apartment on Central Park with his studio in the former basement laundry, meaning he can take the lift to work. Origin Late Middle English: from Scottish Gaelic carn.
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