Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun cairn

2 senses of cairn

Sense 1
cairn -- (a mound of stones piled up as a memorial or to mark a boundary or path)
       => marker, marking, mark -- (a distinguishing symbol; "the owner's mark was on all the sheep")

Sense 2
cairn, cairn terrier -- (small rough-haired breed of terrier from Scotland)
       => terrier -- (any of several usually small short-bodied breeds originally trained to hunt animals living underground)