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cairngorm

cairngorm noun: a precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.

Noun

cairngorm (countable and uncountable, plural cairngorms)

  1. A precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.
    • And then he led away the talk to their home in Devonshire, and the red, bright earth, and the deep-green combes, and the peat streams like cairngorm pebbles, and the wild moor with its high, cloudy tors for a giant background to the picture[…].1857, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's School Days, Part II, Chapter 6

Proper noun capitalized: Cairngorm

Cairngorm

  1. (attributive) The Cairngorms.
    • a Cairngorm resident

Forms of cairngorm

pluralcairngorms

Origin of cairngorm

So called because found among the Cairngorms, a mountainous region in Scotland.

Words formed from cairngorm

Questions about cairngorm

What does cairngorm mean?
Cairngorm means a precious stone of smoky yellow-brown or gray-brown color, used in Scottish jewellery.
What part of speech is cairngorm?
Cairngorm can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of cairngorm?
The plural of cairngorm is cairngorms.

Words near cairngorm in the dictionary

  1. Cairnbulg
  2. Cairncross
  3. cairned
  4. Cairnes
  5. Cairneyhill
  6. cairngorm
  7. cairngorms
  8. cairngormstone
  9. cairngorum
  10. Cairnie
  11. Cairnlea

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