mound

Signification (Anglais)

Noun

1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
3. Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
4. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross.
5. (US, slang, vulgar) The mons veneris.
6. (figuratively, obsolete) A hand.
7. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
8. (obsolete) A helmet.
9. (obsolete) Might; size.
10. a large amount of something.

Verb

1. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
2. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
3. (intransitive) To form a mound.

Concepts

monticule

colline

bosse

tas

butte

tertre

arête

🦴

motte

élévation

montagne

⛰️

tumulus

billon

masse

mont

⛰️

monceau

promontoire

remblayer

ensemble

collection

tombe

troupe

bande

amas

de terre

dune de sable

faire

hamac

lanceur

Synonymes

hill

hillock

heap

knoll

pile

grave

🪦

elevation

ridge

hummock

stack

embankment

bank

🏦

rise

hump

pitcher

cumulus

hammock

pitcher’s mound

bump

tumulus

rampart

drift

group

cumulation

agglomerate

eminence

lump

bunch

batch

slope

midden

motte

mount

mountain

⛰️

pile up

podgy

point

promontory

ream

roll up

ruck

sandbank

sand bar

sand dune

server

steep

stockpile

swelling

tell

terrace

Traductions

Hügel

montículo

tumulus

Erdhügel

Erdwall

cumulo

montón

pilha

monticello

ανάχωμα

tumulo

monte

heuvel

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/maʊnd/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Hérité de moyen anglais: mound

Hérité de ancien anglais: mund

Appartenant à Old Frisian: mund

Appartenant à ancien haut allemand: munt

Appartenant à allemand: Mündel

Appartenant à vieux norrois: mund

Appartenant à islandais: mund

Appartenant à moyen néerlandais: mond

Appartenant à latin: manus

Appartenant à grec ancien: μάρη

In summary

From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-West Germanic *mundu, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh₂-nt-éh₂ (“the beckoning one”), from *(s)meh₂- (“to beckon”).
Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

Phrases

Balfour stormed off the mound , yelling at Cabrera as he walked to the dugout .

Balfour a pris d'assaut le monticule, criant à Cabrera alors qu'il se dirigeait vers la pirogue.