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Entry Word:: ¹pile
Function:: noun

Text: 1 a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another<a large pile of newspapers that needed to be disposed of>Synonymscock, heap, hill, mound, mountain, rick, stackRelated Wordsbank, 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

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