Plural of cairn
regular plural
The plural of cairn is cairns.
Forms of cairn
| Singular | cairn /kɛən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | cairns /kɛənz/ |
| Countable | countable |
Cairns in a sentence
- After fifteen minutes of this we were glad to reach a high saddle on which former travellers had piled little cairns of commemoration and thankfulness.1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, New York: Anchor, published 1991, page 180
- They began to come upon from time to time small cairns of rock by the roadside.2006, Cormac McCarthy, The Road. From the entry patteran
- But stymied by a rockband, you are forced to traverse left instead, following cairns to gain the fire road between two large cairns.2012, Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country, fourth, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry rockband
Meaning of cairn
- noun A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
- noun A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.
- noun A cairn terrier.
Questions about the plural of cairn
- What is the plural of cairn?
- The plural of cairn is cairns.
- Is cairn countable?
- Cairn is a countable noun.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: cairn (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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