English Dictionary

cairn

IPA（発音記号）

/kɛən/

名詞

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

日本語の意味

（古代の英国などで建造された）、円形または円錐形の石を積み上げた遺構、主に墓碑や記念碑としての意味を持つ

While hiking across the windswept moor, we paused at an ancient cairn that marked the burial place of a prehistoric chieftain.

風にさらされた荒れ地をハイキングしているとき、私たちは古代の石の塚に立ち止まり、それが先史時代の首長の墓所を示していることに気づきました。

意味（1）

A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.

Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!—said Glenara the stern.

意味（2）

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.

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.

意味（3）

A cairn terrier.

cairns （ plural ）