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

2 of 2

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

There are mounds of commentary on Marlowe—historical, biographical, critical, and wildly fantastical—and all sorts of reasons to add to the heap. —Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025

Summer's berry bounties and mounds of melons are fleeting. —Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2025

Less a diner than a throwback 1940s soda shop, the lunch-dinner joint plays Great American Songbook oldies and serves marinated skirt steak, fork-tender baby back ribs and meatloaf in mushroom gravy with generous mounds of mashed potatoes. —Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 20 Aug. 2025

Little League Baseball should consider moving pitching mounds back to better protect players as pint-sized phenoms are hurling fastballs that clock more than 80 mph, advocates told Newsweek. —Joshua Rhett Miller, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025

Pudgy, tender sopes are piled with mounds of lamb barbacoa. —Bon Appétit Staff & Contributors, Bon Appetit Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025

Oh sure, there will be still be settlement conferences and mediations and the occasional trial, but a good deal of legal matters will henceforth be solved by the attorney thinking through the situation as opposed to simply generating mounds of paperwork. —Jay Adkisson, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2025

Instead of removing them, they were reshaped into mounds and planted, giving the space the feel of rolling hills. —Ray Mark Rinaldi, Denver Post, 11 Aug. 2025

New aerial photos of the Gaza Strip have laid bare the magnitude of the destruction in the enclave, showing row upon row of shattered buildings interspersed with mounds of rubble and huge tent encampments. —Rebecca Shabad, NBC news, 7 Aug. 2025