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# cairn

«cairn» in Mova's school dictionary: **A heap of stones piled up, often to mark a grave or a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (cairn, cairns)

### meaning for a pupil

A heap of stones piled up, often to mark a grave or a path on a hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cairn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories, a stone heap built to honour the dead or mark a place; in walking, a marker on the hills

### examples

- They built a cairn over the grave. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cairn/#x1)
- We followed the cairns across the moor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cairn/#x2)
- The old stones were piled into a cairn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cairn/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cairn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cairn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.