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mound (mound)

1. A pile of earth, gravel, sand, rocks, or debris heaped for protection or concealment.

2. A natural elevation, such as a small hill.

3. A raised mass, as of hay; a heap. See Synonyms at heap.

4. Archaeology A large artificial pile of earth or stones often marking a burial site.

5. Baseball The slightly elevated pitcher's area in the center of the diamond.

6. Archaic A hedge or fence.

tr.v. mound·ed, mound·ing, mounds

1. To fortify or conceal with a mound.

2. To heap into a raised mass.

[Origin unknown.]

mound¹

1. a raised mass of earth, debris, etc.

2. any heap or pile a mound of washing

3. (Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a small natural hill

4. (Social Science / Archaeology) Archaeol another word for barrow²

5. (Engineering / Civil Engineering) an artificial ridge of earth, stone, etc., as used for defence

1. (often foll by up) to gather into a mound; heap

2. (tr) to cover or surround with a mound to mound a grave Related adjective tumular

[earthwork, perhaps from Old English mund hand, hence defence: compare Middle Dutch mond protection]

mound²

(History / Heraldry) Heraldry a rare word for orb [1]

[C13 (meaning: world, C16: orb): from French monde, from Latin mundus world]

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Noun	1.	mound - (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands pitcher's mound, hill baseball, baseball game - a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs; "he played baseball in high school"; "there was a baseball game on every empty lot"; "there was a desire for National League ball in the area"; "play ball!" baseball diamond, infield, diamond - the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate baseball equipment - equipment used in playing baseball
	2.	mound - a small natural hill hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll anthill, formicary - a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest hill - a local and well-defined elevation of the land; "they loved to roam the hills of West Virginia" kopje, koppie - a small hill rising up from the African veld molehill - a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing
	3.	mound - a collection of objects laid on top of each other cumulation, heap, pile, cumulus, agglomerate aggregation, collection, accumulation, assemblage - several things grouped together or considered as a whole compost heap, compost pile - a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost muckheap, muckhill, dunghill, midden - a heap of dung or refuse scrapheap - pile of discarded metal shock - a pile of sheaves of grain set on end in a field to dry; stalks of Indian corn set up in a field; "corn is bound in small sheaves and several sheaves are set up together in shocks"; "whole fields of wheat in shock" slagheap - pile of waste matter from coal mining etc stack - an orderly pile funeral pyre, pyre - wood heaped for burning a dead body as a funeral rite woodpile - a pile or stack of wood to be used for fuel stockpile - a storage pile accumulated for future use
	4.	mound - structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind" hill barbette - (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet burial mound, grave mound, tumulus, barrow - (archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs embankment - a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection snow bank, snowbank - a mound or heap of snow structure, construction - a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts; "the structure consisted of a series of arches"; "she wore her hair in an amazing construction of whirls and ribbons"
	5.	mound - the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" pitcher position - (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player; "what position does he play?" baseball team - a team that plays baseball
Verb	1.	mound - form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth" shape, mould, mold, form, forge, work - make something, usually for a specific function; "She molded the rice balls carefully"; "Form cylinders from the dough"; "shape a figure"; "Work the metal into a sword" mound over - form a mound over

mound

noun

1. heap, bing (Scot.), pile, drift, stack, rick huge mounds of dirt

2. hill, bank, rise, dune, embankment, knoll, hillock, kopje or koppie (S. African) We sat on a grassy mound and had our picnic.

3. (Archaeology) barrow, tumulus an ancient, man-made burial mound

4. earthwork, rampart, bulwark, motte (History) a rough double-moated mound earmarked as an ancient monument

Related words
adjective tumular

Translations

mound [maʊnd] N

1. (= pile) → montón m

2. (= hillock) → montículo m; (= burial mound) → túmulo m; (= earthwork) → terraplén m

mound [ˈmaʊnd] n

[earth] → monticule m, tertre m

(= pile) → tas m burial mound

mound

(= hill, burial mound) → Hügel m; (= earthwork) → Wall m; (Baseball) → Wurfmal nt

(= pile) → Haufen m; (of books, letters) → Stoß m, → Stapel m

mound [maʊnd] n → rialzo, collinetta

mound

n mound [maund]

a small hill or heap of earth etc a grassy mound; a mound of rubbish. hopie رابِيه، رَبْوَه връхче kupa høj der Hügel σωρός, βουναλάκι montículo küngas تپه mätäs, kumpu monticule תְּלוּלִית स्वर्ण गोलक brežuljak domb(ocska) gundukan hóll; hrúga; haugur monticello, collinetta 塚 언덕, 작은 산 pylimas, kauburys paugurs; uzkalniņš timbunan heuvel, hoop (grav)haug; dynge, stabel kopiec morro movilă холм; насыпь; куча kopa kup, hribček gomila hög, kulle, vall เนิน tepecik, tümsek 土墩 вал, насип تودہ، ڈھیر ụ đất, gò 土墩

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