Entry Word: ¹pile

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another <a large pile of newspapers that needed to be disposed of>

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

Related Words bank, bar, drift, embankment; pyramid; barrow, cairn, pyre; accumulation, aggregate, assemblage, collection, conglomeration, gathering, grouping, hoard, jumble

2 a considerable amount <a job that paid piles of money> — see lot 2