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
• altitudes
• bluffs
• crags
• ridges
• heights
• foothills
• plateaus
• peaks
• domes
• mesas
• buttes
• rises
• hummocks
• mounts
• hillocks
• tors
• precipices
• tables
• tablelands
• steeps
• knobs
• alps
• sierras
• downs
• 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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of mounds

Noun

The stunt was Depp’s second in-character appearance as Scrooge, coming three months after a similarly interactive appearance at San Diego Comic-Con that also generated mounds of social media content from passerby. — J. Kim Murphy, IndieWire, 6 Nov. 2026

The soil surrounding termite mounds also provides good conditions for species such as naked mole rats and aardvarks to make their burrows. — Chris Elphick, The Conversation, 6 Nov. 2026

Surrounding this former Franciscan convent were orchards and open fields and Native American burial mounds. — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Spanning nearly 100 acres, Tavşanlı Höyük is one of the region’s most extensive Bronze Age mounds, and contains remnants of local Anatolian communities dating as far back as 8,000 years. — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 28 Oct. 2026

Israel regularly imposes restrictions on movement across the Palestinian occupied territory with some 925 checkpoints, roadblocks, earth mounds and other barriers. — Ruth Sherlock, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026

But despite this, they were still conceived of as being located within the mounds themselves, real-world anchors for these strange, marvelous realms. — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2026

In 1900, an archaeologist documented 51 Native American mounds at what’s now Casper Bluff Land and Water Reserve, 5 miles outside Galena. — Julia Sayers Gokhale, Midwest Living, 14 Oct. 2026

Inside, the line wraps around the room, and cups everywhere are filled with fluffy mounds of Greek yogurt crowned with fresh fruit, nuts, dark chocolate cacao nibs and other ingredients. — Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026