mound

/maʊnd/

/maʊnd/

Other forms: mounds; mounded; mounding

A mound is a heap or a pile of material or objects. You can make a mound of clothes by dumping your laundry onto your bed.

The noun mound is occasionally used to mean "a hill," but it most often describes a manmade pile, like a mound of stones or a mound of sand heaped on the beach, or a mound of snow that you sculpt into a rabbit. On a baseball diamond, the pitcher's mound is the little rise on which the pitcher stands to throw the ball. As a verb, mound means to pile something into a heaped shape.

Definitions of mound

1. noun

   a collection of objects laid on top of each other
   synonyms: agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, heap, pile

   types:

   compost heap, compost pile

   a heap of manure and vegetation and other organic residues that are decaying to become compost

   dunghill, midden, muckheap, muckhill

   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

   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

   hayrick, haystack, rick

   a stack of hay

   type of:

   accumulation, aggregation, assemblage, collection

   several things grouped together or considered as a whole
2. noun

   structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones
   “they built small mounds to hide behind”

   synonyms: hill

   types:

   barbette

   (formerly) a mound of earth inside a fort from which heavy gun can be fired over the parapet

   barrow, burial mound, grave mound, tumulus

   (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

   levee

   an embankment that is built in order to prevent a river from overflowing

   bulwark, rampart, wall

   an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes

   type of:

   construction, structure

   a thing constructed; a complex entity constructed of many parts
3. noun

   (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
   synonyms: hill, pitcher's mound

   type of:

   baseball equipment

   equipment used in playing baseball
4. noun

   a small natural hill
   synonyms: hammock, hillock, hummock, knoll

   types:

   anthill, formicary

   a mound of earth made by ants as they dig their nest

   kopje, koppie

   a small hill rising up from the African veld

   molehill

   a mound of earth made by moles while burrowing

   type of:

   hill

   a local and well-defined elevation of the land
5. noun

   the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit
   “they have a southpaw on the mound”

   synonyms: pitcher

   type of:

   position

   (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player
6. verb

   form into a rounded elevation
   “mound earth”

   types:

   mound over

   form a mound over

   type of:

   forge, form, mold, mould, shape, work

   make something, usually for a specific function