mound

See also: Mound

English

Etymology

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”), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“guardian”)), Icelandic and Old Norse mund (“hand”), and possibly Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek μάρη (márē, “hand”). Not related to mount.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /maʊnd/

• Audio (General Australian):

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• Audio (UK):

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• Rhymes: -aʊnd

Noun

Mounds of salt

mound (plural mounds)

1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

   Synonyms: bulwark, rampart

2. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

   Synonym: earthen mound

3. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

   The pitcher was waiting at the mound.

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, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
6. (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
7. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
8. (obsolete) A helmet.
9. (obsolete) Might; size.
10. a large amount of something.

Synonyms

• (part of regalia): globus cruciger, globe, orb

Derived terms

• Allegheny mound ant
• ant mound
• burial mound
• cathedral mound
• charge the mound
• charging the mound
• earthen mound
• fairy mound
• Flower Mound
• gravemound
• intermound
• love mound
• Mima mound
• mound ant
• mound bird
• moundbird
• mound builder
• mound-builder
• moundbuilding
• Mound City
• moundlet
• moundlike
• mound royal
• moundsman
• Moundsville
• moundy
• pitcher's mound
• Pleasant Mound
• pubic mound
• Richmond
• shaftment
• shaftmound
• termite mound
• Venus mound
• Wagon Mound
• Western Mound

Translations

artificial elevation of earth

• Armenian: թումբ (hy) (tʻumb)
• Bulgarian: насип (bg) m (nasip)
• Catalan: mota (ca) f, túmul (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 土堆 (zh) (tǔduī), 堆 (zh) (duī)

• Dutch: terp (nl) m
• Esperanto: teramaso
• Finnish: keko (fi), kasa (fi), valli (fi), penkka (fi)
• French: butte (fr) f, monticule (fr) m
• Galician: mámoa (gl) f, meda (gl) f
• Georgian: ყორღანი (q̇orɣani)
• German: Erdhügel (de) m, Erdwall (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: χῶμα n (khôma)

• Hungarian: töltés (hu)
• Irish: tulach f, mullóg f
• Italian: terrapieno (it) m, tumulo (it) m, cumulo (it) m, monticello m, tumulo (it) m, motta (it) f, montarozzo m
• Japanese: 塚 (ja) (つか, tsuka), マウンド (ja) (maundo)
• Latin: tumulus m
• Māori: toropuke
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: yílkʼid
• Persian: تپه (fa) (tappe), کومه (fa) (kume)
• Plautdietsch: Humpel m
• Polish: kopiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: pilha (pt) f, monte (pt) m, cômoro (pt) m
• Russian: на́сыпь (ru) f (násypʹ), холм (ru) m (xolm)
• Spanish: túmulo (es) m, montículo (es) m
• Turkish: höyük (tr), öbek (tr), yığın (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: كومه (küme)

• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎍 (tl)
• Venetan: chipa (vec) f
• Walloon: hopea (wa) m, moncea (wa) m
• Welsh: twmpath (cy) m, crug m

natural elevation

• Bulgarian: могила (bg) f (mogila)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 丘 (zh) (qiū)

• Dutch: heuvel (nl)
• Esperanto: altaĵeto
• Finnish: kukkula (fi), kumpu (fi), kumpare (fi)
• French: tertre (fr) m
• Galician: toutelo m
• German: Hügel (de) m
• Italian: collinetta f, poggio (it) m, monticello m, tumulo (it) m, motta (it) f
• Japanese: 塚 (ja) (つか, tsuka)
• Kapampangan: punsu
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: haug m

• Persian: تپه (fa) (tappe)
• Plautdietsch: Humpel m
• Portuguese: monte (pt) m
• Romanian: movilă (ro) f
• Russian: курга́н (ru) m (kurgán), холм (ru) m (xolm)
• Spanish: montículo (es) m
• Turkish: tepecik (tr), tümsek (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: كومه (küme)

• Vietnamese: gò (vi), ụ (vi), đụn (vi)
• Walloon: tiene (wa) m, tier (wa) m, croupet (wa) m

baseball term

• Finnish: syöttökumpu
• French: monticule (fr) m
• Japanese: マウンド (ja) (maundo)
• Portuguese: montinho (pt) m, montículo (pt) m
• Spanish: montículo (es) m, base (es) m

part of regalia

• Finnish: valtakunnanomena (fi)
• Polish: jabłko (pl) n
• Portuguese: orbe (pt) m
• Russian: держава (ru) f (deržava)
• Spanish: orbe (es) m

vulva — see vulva

Verb

mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)

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

   He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.

3. (intransitive) To form a mound.
   • 2011, Rick Hansen, Leadership and The Art of Surfing, page xi:

     When a wave mounds on the outside and takes its shape, a surfer quickly paddles to the peak, positions himself in its evolving momentum, swings his board around, aligns with the peak, and thrusts himself into its cascading shape.

Synonyms

• (fortify with a mound): bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
• (pile into mounds): heap up, pile; see also Thesaurus:pile up

Derived terms

• amound
• remound
• unmounded

Translations

fortify with a mound

• French: butter (fr)

to pile into mounds

• Bulgarian: натрупвам (bg) (natrupvam)
• Finnish: kasata (fi)
• Italian: accumulare (it), ammucchiare (it)
• Portuguese: amontoar (pt), empilhar (pt)
• Spanish: apilar (es), amontonar (es)

See also

• mound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Anagrams

• Mudon, Mundo

Middle English

Noun

mound

1. alternative form of mund