Tarn
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /tɑːn/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tarn is a noun meaning (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
Meaning
(Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
More Meanings
- (US, chiefly Montana) One of many small mountain lakes or ponds.
Example Sentences
There Grendel was watching his blood flow out into the seething tarn.
In another story the remarkable mystery of the umbrella lost at the shores of a tarn and retrieved at the seaside is explained by the underground communication between the two.
It [the caribou] makes a fine, bold study on the foreground of an evening scene among the mountain tarns of Northern Idaho, as it fulfils the ideal description of the stag given by [Walter] Scott and other writers.
Off to either side of the road [Beartooth Highway], unforgettable mountain scenes arise beneath crisp mountain skies. Here is alpine country at its best, complete with lakes and tarns set amid truly rugged promontories.
Word Forms
- tarns
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include hue, torne, lakes, tern, llyn, lough.
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