Crossword-Solution: CAIRN 5 letters, 102 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Cairn	n.	A rounded or conical heap of stones erected by early inhabitants of the British Isles, apparently as a sepulchral monument.
Cairn	n.	A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
CAIRN	anagram	CARIN, CARNI, CRAIN, CRANI, NARIC, NICAR, RICAN

We have 102 clues for the answer “CAIRN”

Clue	Answers
Conical heap of stones	1 answer
Conical stone heap	1 answer
Hiker's trail marker	1 answer
Landmark of stones.	1 answer
Meaningful pile of stones	1 answer
Memorial heap	1 answer
Memorial mound	1 answer
Memorial mound of stones	1 answer
Memorial pile	1 answer
Memorial rockpile	1 answer
Memorial rocks	1 answer
Memorial stone pile	1 answer
Memorial stones	1 answer
Monument of stones	1 answer
Monumental stone heap	1 answer
Mound made in memoriam	1 answer
Mound of stones	1 answer
Mound of stones used as a marker	1 answer
Mounded memorial	1 answer
Mountain-summit marker	1 answer
Pile of stones	1 answer
Pile of stones used to mark a trail	1 answer
Piled-stones memorial	1 answer
Rock landmark	1 answer
Rock-pile monument	1 answer
Shaggy Scottish dog	1 answer
Shaggy dog from Scotland.	1 answer
Significant heap of stones.	1 answer
Significant pile of stones	1 answer
Small dog of terrier breed.	1 answer
Small stone monument	1 answer
Small, shaggy Scottish terrier.	1 answer
Stone Mound	1 answer
Stone heap	1 answer
Stone landmark	1 answer
Stone pile serving as a landmark	1 answer
Stone pile.	1 answer
Stone-heap marker	1 answer
Stone-pile marker	1 answer
Stones piled up as a marker	1 answer
Summit marker	1 answer
Terrier of Scotland.	1 answer
Toto's terrier type	1 answer
Trail-marking stack	1 answer
Type of Scottish terrier	1 answer
__ terrier: Highlands hunter	1 answer
___ terrier (Toto's breed)	1 answer
___ terrier (dog breed originally from Scotland)	1 answer
___ terrier (small Scottish dog breed)	1 answer
land pile	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

AEERT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with CAIRN (5)

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

Fables Robert Louis Stevenson 2007

That same mornin’, John Christie saw the Black Man pass the Muckle Cairn as it was chappin’ six; before eicht, he gaed by the change-house at Knockdow; an’ no lang after, Sandy M’Lellan saw him gaun linkin’ doun the braes frae Kilmackerlie.

The Merry Men Robert Louis Stevenson 1995

INTRODUCTORY In the wild end of a moorland parish, far out of the sight of any house, there stands a cairn among the heather, and a little by east of it, in the going down of the brae-side, a monument with some verses half defaced.

Weir of Hermiston Robert Louis Stevenson 2010

Out over cairn and moss, Out over scrog and scaur, He ran as runs the clansman That bears the cross of war.

Ballads Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

Trout in the burn grow great as herr’n, The simple sheep can find their fair’n’; The wind blaws clean about the cairn Wi’ caller air; The muircock an’ the barefit bairn Are happy there.

Underwoods Robert Louis Stevenson 2013

Quotes with CAIRN (1)

Success is not like a cake that needs to be divided. It's more like a heap of stones - a cairn. If someone is successful, they add a stone to the cairn. It gets very high and can be seen from all over the world. That's how I see it.

Maeve Binchy

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 125 times in crossword archives (1946–2023).