mound

Meaning

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.

Synonyms

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

Translations

monticule

Hügel

montículo

colline

bosse

tas

butte

tumulus

Erdhügel

montón

Erdwall

cumulo

tertre

tumulo

Pronounced as (IPA)

/maʊnd/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: mound

Inherited from Old English: mund

Cognate with Old Frisian: mund

Cognate with Old High German: munt

Cognate with German: Mündel

Cognate with Old Norse: mund

Cognate with Icelandic: mund

Cognate with Middle Dutch: mond

Cognate with Latin: manus

Cognate with Ancient Greek: 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.

Sentences

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