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tumulose

/tjuːmjʊləʊz/

tumulose is the alternative form of tumulous.

Meaning of tumulous

Adjective

tumulous (comparative more tumulous, superlative most tumulous)

  1. Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
    • Tumulous waves1725–1726, Homer, “(please specify the book or chapter of the Odyssey)”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

Forms of tumulose

comparativemore tumulose
superlativemost tumulose

Origin of tumulose

From Latin tumulōsus (“full of hills or hillocks, hilly”) (whence -ose), tumulus (“mound, hill, hillock”) + -ōsus, from tumeō (“to swell”).

Questions about tumulose

What is tumulose the alternative form of?
Tumulose is the alternative form of tumulous.
How do you pronounce tumulose?
Tumulose is pronounced /tjuːmjʊləʊz/.

Words near tumulose in the dictionary

  1. tumulates
  2. tumulating
  3. tumulation
  4. tumulations
  5. tumuli
  6. tumulose
  7. tumulosities
  8. tumulosity
  9. tumulous
  10. tumult
  11. tumulted

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tumulose (page history and authors); tumulous (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.

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