Synonyms of mounds

mounds 1 of 2

noun

plural of mound

1

as in banks

a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow)

mounds of snow after the plow had passed

Synonyms & Similar Words

• banks
• mountains
• drifts
• tufts
• stacks
• heaps
• bars
• embankments
• masses
• hills
• snowdrifts
• snowbanks
• sandbars

2

as in piles

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another

an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor

Synonyms & Similar Words

• piles
• stacks
• mountains
• heaps
• hills
• cocks
• layers
• hoards
• banks
• embankments
• beds
• pyramids
• accumulations
• collections
• drifts
• arrays
• assemblages
• aggregates
• barrows
• groupings
• bars
• jumbles
• cairns
• pyres
• gatherings
• ricks
• conglomerations
• mows
• knots
• pileups
• huddles

3

as in hills

an area of high ground

a pitcher's mound

Synonyms & Similar Words

• hills
• mountains
• cliffs
• knolls
• highlands
• elevations
• uplands
• eminences
• humps
• prominences
• bluffs
• altitudes
• crags
• ridges
• heights
• foothills
• plateaus
• peaks
• plateaux
• domes
• mesas
• buttes
• rises
• hummocks
• mounts
• hillocks
• tors
• precipices
• tables
• tablelands
• steeps
• knobs
• alps
• sierras
• downs
• sugarloaves
• sugarloafs

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• lowlands
• valleys
• depressions
• hollows
• plains
• basins
• glens
• vales
• dales
• dells
• flats
• bottoms
• floodplains
• bottomlands
• fens
• dingles
• tidewaters

mounds

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verb

present tense third-person singular of mound

1

as in stacks

to form into a pile or ridge of earth

mound the mulch around the plants

Synonyms & Similar Words

• piles
• hills
• stacks
• clumps
• banks
• lumps
• heaps
• pyramids
• masses
• accumulates
• wads
• groups
• gathers
• bunches
• collects
• assembles
• bundles
• conglomerates
• amasses
• embanks

2

as in heaps

to lay or throw on top of one another

mounding slices of cheese on top of her sandwich meat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• piles
• stacks
• heaps
• layers
• banks
• collects
• assembles
• groups
• gathers
• clumps
• masses
• accumulates
• lumps
• pyramids
• concentrates
• bunches
• amasses
• garners

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unpiles