cairn.

A pile of stones built as a marker, memorial, or landmark.

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Words that belong together

• a summit cairn
• a memorial cairn

On the page

At the summit, a small cairn stood beside a rusted tin containing names.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular cairn; plural cairns. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.