mound

/maʊnd/

mound noun: an artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense.

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Noun

mound (plural mounds)

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

Synonyms:

bulwark, rampart
A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

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earthen mound
An elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- The pitcher was waiting at the mound.
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pitcher's mound
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.

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globus cruciger, globe, orb
(US, slang, vulgar) The mons veneris.
(slang, vulgar) A woman's breast.
- […] the men were now also massaging her mounds, their fingers soothing and kneading while they sucked at her aching nipples.2025, Jan Springer, Jasmine Black, Captured (page 257)
(figuratively, obsolete, measurement) A hand.
(obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
(obsolete) A helmet.
(obsolete) Might; size.
A large amount of something.
- a mound of mashed potato

Verb

mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)

(transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.

Synonyms:

bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
(transitive) 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.
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heap up
(intransitive) To form a mound.
- When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape.2011, Rick Hansen, Leadership and The Art of Surfing, page xi

Proper noun capitalized: Mound

Mound

A township in Effingham County, Illinois.
A township in McDonough County, Illinois.
A township in Warren County, Indiana.
A township in McPherson County, Kansas.
A village in Madison Parish, Louisiana.
A city in Hennepin County, Minnesota.
- Tonka was created in 1946 by a gardening supply company in Mound, Minnesota called Mound Metalcraft, which later become Tonka Toys Incorporated.2020 February 20, “Basic Fun! and Shaquille O'Neal Announce Tonka Collaboration”, in PR Newswire, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2025
A township in Rock County, Minnesota.
A township in Bates County, Missouri.
A census-designated place in Coryell County, Texas.
An unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia.

mound meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

mound in Tamil

புற்று, மண்மேடு, மண்திட்டு, சுவர் அல்லது மேடு

mound in Urdu

mound, heap, pile, mass; stack: تودہ toda

mound in Bengali

mound: স্তূপ stup

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mound in Telugu: దిబ్బ
mound in Malayalam: തിട്ട് tiṭṭŭ
mound in Kannada: ದಿಣ್ಣೆ, ದಿನ್ನೆ, ತೆಣೆ, ಎಗ್ಗುಡಿ
mound in Punjabi: ਟੀਲਾ
mound in Gujarati: સ્તૂપ stūp
mound in Sanskrit: वपा vapā́, कच्छ kaccha, स्तूप stūpa
mound in Persian: تپه tappe, کومه kume
mound in Vietnamese: gò, ụ, đụn

Examples of mound in a sentence

He helped himself to another mound of well-gravied potatoes.
I look down at my plate, a mound of rice covered with gushy mapo.
She pressed lightly around the outer labia and above the pubic mound, checking for tears or damage.

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Synonyms of mound

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pile

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Forms of mound

Noun
plural	mounds
Verb
third-person singular present	mounds
present participle	mounding
past participle	mounded
past	mounded

Plural of mound: mounds

Origin of mound

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

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Phrases with mound

Words that rhyme with mound

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Questions about mound

What does mound mean?: Mound means an artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense.
What is mound in Hindi?: Mound in Hindi is टीला. See Mound meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is mound?: Mound can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mound?: Mound is pronounced /maʊnd/.
What is the plural of mound?: The plural of mound is mounds.

Words near mound in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: mound (page history and authors); Mound (page history and authors); mound (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mound (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); تودہ (Urdu) (page history and authors); স্তূপ (Bengali) (page history and authors); mound (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); തിട്ട് (Malayalam) (page history and authors); mound (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); mound (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); સ્તૂપ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); कच्छ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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