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: a small steep-banked mountain lake or pool

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The lake, a glacial tarn called Roopkund, was more than sixteen thousand feet above sea level, an arduous five-day trek from human habitation, in a mountain cirque surrounded by snowfields and battered by storms. Douglas Preston, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2020 Follow the winding trail toward the base of O'Malley Peak to a striking, dark tarn called Deep Lake. Tegan Hanlon, Anchorage Daily News, 15 June 2018 In 1951, some 885 square miles of Cumbrian hills and tarns (mountain pools) were designated as a national park, Britain’s largest and, with 18 million annual visitors, its most popular. Kieran Dodds, Smithsonian, 20 Apr. 2018

Word History

Etymology

Middle English terne, tarne, of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse tjǫrn small lake

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of tarn was in the 14th century

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