English

Proper noun

Tarn

1. One of the départements of Midi-Pyrénées, France (INSEE code 81)
2. A river in southwest France.

Translations

French

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Tarn m

1. Tarn

Derived terms

• tarnais
• Tarnais

English

Noun

A tarn in the Lake District

tarn ‎(plural tarns)

1. (Northern England) A small mountain lake, especially in Northern England.
   • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher, Project Gutenberg (1997), 1,

     It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down—but with a shudder even more thrilling than before—upon the remodelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant and eye-like windows.

Translations

References

• “tarn” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).

Anagrams

• rant
• tRNA