mound

mound

noun

Definition of MOUND

1

a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) <mounds of snow after the plow had passed>

Synonyms bar, drift, mound

Related Words snowbank, snowdrift; embankment, sandbar; heap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft

2

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another <an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor>

Synonyms cock, heap, hill, mound, mountain, stack

Related Words bank, bar, drift, embankment; bed, layer; mow, pyramid, rick; barrow, cairn, pyre; accumulation, aggregate, array, assemblage, collection, conglomeration, gathering, grouping, hoard, huddle, jumble, knot, pileup

3

an area of high ground <a pitcher's mound>

Synonyms altitude(s), elevation, eminence, highland, hill, hump, mound, prominence, rise, upland

Related Words alp, mount, mountain, peak; butte, mesa, plateau, table, tableland; bluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, tor; ridge, sierra; dome, sugarloaf; foothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll; downs

Near Antonyms dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valley; basin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater

Antonyms lowland