Skip to main content

cairn

/kairn/US // kɛərn //UK // (kɛən) //

凯恩,巢穴,凯恩斯,凯尔姆

Related Words

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a heap of stones set up as a landmark, monument, tombstone, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • In your exhilaration, you grab a stone and drop it on the nearest cairn as if to say, I was here!

  • On his left hand and behind him lay the rich belt of woodland that marked the courses of the rivers Cluden and Cairn.

  • His Grace sent Castalia a beautiful wedding present: a cairn-gorm, set in solid silver.

  • And now, behold, I break open the piled stones of your cairn, and I let in the noon between your ribs.

  • My experience was such by this time that I saw at a glance this cairn was not the work of a native.

  • We can go no further till we find an unrifled cairn burial answering to Homeric descriptions.