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cairngorms

cairngorms is the plural of cairngorm.

Meaning of cairngorm

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

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Proper noun capitalized: Cairngorms

Cairngorms pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A mountainous region in the Scottish Highlands.
  2. (plural, plural-only) A national park within this region of Scotland.

Questions about cairngorms

What does cairngorms mean?
Cairngorms means a mountainous region in the Scottish Highlands.
What is cairngorms the plural of?
Cairngorms is the plural of cairngorm.
What part of speech is cairngorms?
Cairngorms is a proper noun.

Words near cairngorms in the dictionary

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

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