tarn
pronunciation
How to pronounce tarn in British English:
UK [tɑ:n]
How to pronounce tarn in American English:
US [tɑrn]
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- Noun:
- a mountain lake (especially one formed by glaciers)
Word Origin
- tarn (n.)
- late 14c., mid-13c. in Anglo-Latin, from Old Norse tjörn "small mountain lake without visible tributaries," from Proto-Germanic *terno, perhaps originally "water hole" [Barnhart]. A dialectal word popularized by the Lake poets.
Example
- 1. But rather than straight shots of the leaves themselves , I tried photographing just their reflections in this small tarn in acadia national park .
- 2. Variability of early diagenesis in lake sediments : evidence from the sedimentary geolipid record in an isolated tarn .
- 3. A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world is to be inaugurated in southern france -- a spectacular feat of engineering that will carry motorists at 270 metres ( 885 feet ) above the valley of the river tarn .