Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word MOUND

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Definitions of MOUND

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. 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.
4. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
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. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
11. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
12. (intransitive) To form a mound.

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Examples of Using MOUND in a Sentence

• The "mount" of Megiddo in northern Israel is not actually a mountain, but a tell (a mound or hill created by many generations of people living and rebuilding at the same spot) on which ancient forts were built to guard the Via Maris, an ancient trade route linking Egypt with the northern empires of Syria, Anatolia and Mesopotamia.
• There is also a smaller settlement mound to the west and a Byzantine settlement a few hundred meters to the east.
• A cairn is a human-made pile (or stack) of stones raised for a purpose, usually as a marker or as a burial mound.
• Most date from the Late Neolithic period (40003000 BCE) and were sometimes covered with earth or smaller stones to form a tumulus (burial mound).
• The kistvaens were usually covered with a mound of earth and surrounded by a circle of small stones.
• The grass mound hides a complex of passages and chambers built of carefully crafted slabs of flagstone weighing up to 30 tons.
• The word sí or sídh in Irish means a fairy mound or ancient burial mound, which were seen as portals to an Otherworld.
• Summer – The Viking ship of Oseberg near Tønsberg (modern Norway) is buried in a mound, during the Viking Age (approximate date).
• These are typically in some effigy shape such as the Panther Intaglio Effigy Mound, which can be seen in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, where it is the last remaining intaglio mound in the state.
• Serpent Mound and Hopewell Culture National Historical Park, though not in Fairfield County, are nearby.
• The Marquis de Marigny constructed monumental roadworks, completed in 1777, on the mound when he was establishing the plantations along the Champs-Élysées.
• The mound was inhabited (with discontinuity) from the Early Bronze Age through the Roman Empire, while the lower town was occupied only from the last decades of the third millennium to the early sixteenth century BCE.
• It includes many parks and preserves, including one of Ohio's greatest archeological wonders, the Serpent Mound at the Serpent Mound State Memorial in Locust Grove.
• An earthwork platform mound was built around 1000 CE in modern-day Hayesville, likely by people of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture as the center of their village.
• The earliest known inhabitants of the area that would become Montgomery County were the Mound Builders, Native Americans who built large earthen mounds, two of which were assumed to have been constructed in southeastern Franklin Township.
• These fortifications were reused in the Late Bronze Age in the south of the mound, but went out of commission in the Iron Age I.
• During the Mamluk and Ottoman periods a modest village occupied the old tell (archaeological mound).
• One documented chiefdom in what is now Pinellas County was that of the Tocobaga, who occupied a town and large temple mound, the Safety Harbor site, overlooking the bay in what is now Safety Harbor.
• North of the village, in the townland of Cornashee, is a large burial mound within a round enclosure, which is a scheduled monument.
• Their burial mound and ceremonial platform mound, the largest in the state, are preserved at Oakville Indian Mounds Park and Museum.

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