Synonyms of mounds

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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

Pine trees coat the forest floor with mounds of flammable dead leaves that are springy underfoot but which can smolder long after a blaze. — ABC News, 31 July 2026

The third hole features an 80-yard blind tee shot from one of the tee boxes, while the seventh hole has a 60-yard shot over a cove, and the ninth plays through two large mounds that were inspired by the famed opening hole at Tobacco Road. — Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026

Over the years, mounds, pottery shards and other relics of Native American settlements that once dotted the swamp have been discovered. — Drew Kann, AJC.com, 20 July 2026

In an effort to starve the Native Americans of the Great Plains, white settlers massacred many millions of North American buffalo between 1870 and 1890, piling the animals’ skulls into monstrous mounds reaching up to the sky. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

My parents arrived to help, to a county where mounds of insulation and shattered windows, once-sturdy doors, and sticks of furniture were piled like mountains on the sides of streets. — Kristy Woodson Harvey, Southern Living, 18 July 2026

Some take on more elaborate forms, such as burial mounds filled with silk bags of soil collected from each of the historical counties of Greater Hungary. — Brett R. Chloupek, The Conversation, 15 July 2026

Why to Fertilize Petunias Petunias are fast-growing plants that produce mounds of foliage and abundant blooms. — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 July 2026

Holston specifically recommends everbearing alpine varieties, which grow in small mounds and take up less space. — Samantha Johnson, Martha Stewart, 12 July 2026