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carns

carns is the plural of carn.

Meaning of carn

Interjection

  1. (Australia, informal) Come on.
    • Slipper hooted. But in a moment another wedging peak was upon us.
      "Carn, kid. No guts, no glory."
      "I don't think so," I said.
      "It's the only way home now."2008, Tim Winton, Breath, Picador UK Paperback edition 2008, Ch.3, p.52
  2. (Australia, informal) An exclamation of support or approval, usually for a sporting (football) team.
    • Cries of "Carn the Bunnies" rang out, and the talk was of past glories, present disappointments and future hopes.2001 March 26, “Rabbitohs win hearts and minds of the disaffected”, in The Sydney Morning Herald

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Proper noun (1) capitalized: Carns

Carns (plural Carnses)

  1. A surname.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Carns

Carns

  1. (plural) plural of Carn

Forms of carns

pluralCarnses

Origin of carns

Variant of Cairns.

Questions about carns

What does carns mean?
Carns means a surname.
What is carns the plural of?
Carns is the plural of carn.
What part of speech is carns?
Carns is a proper noun.

Words near carns in the dictionary

  1. carnotite
  2. carnotites
  3. Carnoules
  4. carnous
  5. Carnoustie
  6. carns
  7. carnser
  8. carnsers
  9. Carnses
  10. Carntyne
  11. Carnuntum

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Adapted from Wiktionary: carns (page history and authors); Carns (page history and authors); carn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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