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mound
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- pronunciation:
- maUnd
- parts of speech:
- noun, transitive verb
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun, verb), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
noun |
| definition 1: |
a raised pile; heap.
The snowplows created large mounds of snow in the parking lot.The children played on the mound of dirt.- synonyms:
- heap, pile
- similar words:
- bank, drift, stack
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| definition 2: |
a small natural hill.
- synonyms:
- hillock, knoll
- similar words:
- bank, drumlin, dune, hill, hummock, knob, swell
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| definition 3: |
a raised area, as over the site of buried objects.
a burial mound- synonyms:
- barrow
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| definition 4: |
in baseball, a slightly raised hard-packed hill of dirt from which the pitcher throws.
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| related words: |
grave |
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| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
mounds, mounding, mounded |
| definition 1: |
to form into a pile or heap.
They mounded their belongings at the entrance.- synonyms:
- bank, heap, pile
- similar words:
- stack
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| definition 2: |
to provide with a mound or mounds, as for defense or concealment.
- synonyms:
- bank, bulwark, embank, rampart
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