Mound

Noun



 * 1) An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart.
 * 2) A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
 * 3)  The place where the pitcher stands to pitch.
 * 4) A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
 * 5) 🇺🇸 Vulva.

Synonyms

 * globus cruciger, globe, orb

Verb

 * 1) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
 * He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.

Adjectives for Mound
pious; countless; rural; hideous; grass-grown; craggy; conical; sorrow-laden; shapeless; pyramidal; solitary; moldering.

Thesaurus
abatis, advanced work, anthill, arch, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, bank up, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, barrow, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, boundary stone, brae, brass, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bust, butte, cairn, casemate, cenotaph, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cock, cofferdam, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cromlech, cross, cup, curtain, cyclolith, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, dolmen, down, drawbridge, drift, drumlin, dune, earthwork, elevation, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fell, fence, fieldwork, foothills, footstone, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, grave, gravestone, gravity dam, groin, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, headstone, heap, heap up, hill, hillock, hoarstone, hummock, hump, hydraulic-fill dam, inscription, iron curtain, jam, jetty, kitchen midden, knob, knoll, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, marker, mass, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, molehill, monolith, monticle, monticule, monument, moor, mountain, mow, necrology, obelisk, obituary, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pile, pile up, pillar, plaque, portcullis, postern gate, prize, pyramid, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rick, rise, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rostral column, sally port, sand dune, scarp, sconce, seawall, shaft, shock, shrine, shutter dam, slope, snowdrift, stack, stack up, stela, stockade, stone, stone wall, stupa, swell, tablet, tell, tenaille, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tor, trophy, tumulus, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

Etymology
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from mound:, mund:, from  mund:, from, from. Cognate with mund:,  munt: ( Mündel:, Vormund:),  mund:),  mond:,  manus:,  μάρη:.

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