caer

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noun

A Welsh fortress.

OriginWelsh caer →
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Meanings

nouncaer (plural caers)

plural caers · alternative cair

  1. A Welsh fortress.

    […] a good many relics of the old Welsh Caers still bespeak the incompleteness of the early Teutonic conquest.

    1892, Grant Allen, Science in Arcady, page 295

Origin

  1. Welshcaer
  2. Englishcaer

From Welsh caer.

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Cite this entry
APA

caer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caer

MLA

“caer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “caer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caer.

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