mound
noun/maʊnd/
/maʊnd/
- a large pile of earth or stones; a small hill
- a Bronze Age burial mound
- The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound.
Extra ExamplesTopics Geographyc2- The church stands on a high mound just outside the village.
- a small tree on a grassy mound
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- high
- large
- low
- …
- on a/the mound
- the foot of a mound
- the top of a mound
- a pile synonym heap
- a small mound of rice/sand
Extra Examples- a neat mound of leaves
- He covered the mound of rice on his plate with the sauce.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- mound of
- mound of something (informal) a large amount of something synonym heap
- I've got a mound of paperwork to do.
- a great mound of paperwork
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- big
- great
- huge
- …
- mound of
- (in baseball ) the small raised area where the player who throws the ball (called the pitcher) stands
Word Originearly 16th cent. (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’.
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