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kistvaen

/ˈkɪstvaɪn/

kistvaen noun: a stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.

kistvaen: a stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones
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Noun

kistvaen (plural kistvaens)

  1. A stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.
    • It was man of the New Stone Age who first peopled this upland, leaving remains of his hut-dwellings, his pounds, dolmens, and menhirs, his kistvaens and his cooking-holes.1913, Arthur L. Salmon, Dartmoor

kistvaen meaning in Tamil

kistvaen in Tamil

முசுமுசுச்சாலை

Forms of kistvaen

pluralkistvaens
alternative formcistvaen

Origin of kistvaen

From Welsh cistfaen, from cist (“chest”) + maen (“stone”).

Questions about kistvaen

What does kistvaen mean?
Kistvaen means a stone coffin in the form of a pit covered with earth and surrounded by stones.
What is kistvaen in Tamil?
Kistvaen in Tamil is முசுமுசுச்சாலை. See Kistvaen meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is kistvaen?
Kistvaen is a noun.
How do you pronounce kistvaen?
Kistvaen is pronounced /ˈkɪstvaɪn/.
What is the plural of kistvaen?
The plural of kistvaen is kistvaens.

Words near kistvaen in the dictionary

  1. kistmutgars
  2. Kistner
  3. Kistners
  4. kistrin
  5. kists
  6. kistvaen
  7. kistvaens
  8. Kisumu
  9. kiswa
  10. kiswah
  11. Kiswahili

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Adapted from Wiktionary: kistvaen (page history and authors); kistvaen (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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