mound
noun
[ maʊnd ]
• a rounded mass projecting above a surface.
• "the bushes were little more than vague mounds beneath the snow"
• a large pile or quantity of something.
• "a mound of dirty crockery"
Similar:
heap,
pile,
stack,
mass,
collection,
accumulation,
aggregation,
assemblage,
mountain,
pyramid,
rickle,
bing,
mound
verb
• heap up into a rounded pile.
• "basmati rice was mounded on our plates"
• enclose or fortify with an embankment.
• "a sand-built ridge Of heaped hills that mound the sea"
Origin:
early 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘enclose with a fence or hedge’): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was ‘boundary hedge or fence’.
mound
noun
• a ball representing the earth, used as part of royal regalia, e.g. on top of a crown, typically of gold and surmounted by a cross.
Origin:
Middle English (denoting the world): from Old French monde, from Latin mundus ‘world’.
