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/kɛən/ · noun
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.
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.
Use cairn when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cairn means A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument..
Common synonyms include See burial mound § Synonyms, cairn terrier.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Now here let us place the gray stone of her cairn: / Why speak ye no word!"—said Glenara the stern.
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