MOUND


Meaning of MOUND in English

I. ˈmau̇nd verb

( -ed/-ing/-s )

Etymology: origin unknown

transitive verb

1. archaic

a. : to surround with a barrier : fence

to mound over the hill would require double the rails — Jethro Tull

b. : to enclose or fortify with a ridge of earth

heaped hills that mound the sea — Alfred Tennyson

2.

a. : to gather into a heap : pile

snow mounded in high white cones above the pillars — Josephine Johnson

b. : to surround or cover with a raised heap : bank , hill

roses are mounded for winter protection

the mounded grave of a British Tommy — T.O.Heggen

spotted the wreck, which the silt of 22 centuries had mounded up — National Geographic

intransitive verb

: to become a mound : pile up

thunderheads are mounding in the west

II. noun

( -s )

Usage: often attributive

Etymology: origin unknown

1.

a. dialect chiefly England : an encompassing hedge or fence

b. obsolete : a line of demarcation : boundary

stars, whose whirling courses … mark the true mounds of years, and months, and days — Josuah Sylvester

2.

a. : an earthwork used as a fortification : rampart

b. : a prehistoric earthwork constructed by Indian mound builders of No. America over a burial or sacrificial altar or as a foundation or fortification or for ceremonial purposes

3.

a. : an accumulated mass or artificially produced heap : pile

mounds of oyster shells surround the weathered frame shacks — American Guide Series: Florida

began to process mounds of orders — M.E.Harvey

fluffy mounds of mashed potatoes — Jack Alexander

b. : the slightly elevated area in which a baseball pitcher's plate is set

c. : a natural elevation : hill , knoll

mounds and dunes of loose sand — Willa Cather

hurricanes … dragging in their centers a mound of seawater — Marjory S. Douglas

specifically : hump

under his left eye was a mound of bluish flesh — G.B.Shaw

III. noun

also mond ˈmänd

( -s )

Etymology: Middle French monde, literally, world, from Latin mundus

: orb 1c(3)

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.