mound

[US]/maʊnd/
[UK]/maʊnd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. a pile of earth; a heap of earth

Phrases & Collocations

mound of dirt

burial mound

mound of stones

mound of sand

rubble mound

mound breakwater

Example Sentences

a mound of dirty crockery.

mounds of incompressible garbage.

mound*/ maund / n.

a conical mound of hay

try to mound up the cream quite high.

There is a mound of papers on my desk.

a small tree on a grassy mound

We had mounds of tasteless rice.

mounds some 30 metres across.

over these mounds the Kurdish shepherd strays.

The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.

Villagers in the Mexican state of Veracruz discovered the tablet sometime before 1999, while quarrying an ancient Olmec mound for road-building material.

Real-world Examples

This is the funeral mound of James DeWolf.

Source: VOA Standard English_Americas

The explorers climbed a mound to survey the land around them.

Source: Liu Yi's breakthrough of 5000 English vocabulary words.

There it will impact a sandy mound resembling early Earth's surface.

Source: The History Channel documentary "Cosmos"

Hurricane-force wind gusts piled up mounds of ice along Lake Erie's shores.

Source: PBS English News

Over all they raised a mighty mound. Thus they buried Hector, defender of Troy.

Source: American Elementary School English 6

Sure. Put me on the pitcher's mound. Then all the batters will be scared!

Source: Airborne English: Everyone speaks English.

Again the problem is the geology; we had to level the mounds on the track for safety reasons.

Source: Cambridge IELTS Listening Actual Test 9

Slowly, carefully, she built up the nest until she was sitting on a big grassy mound.

Source: The Trumpet Swan

These mounds may contain millions of individuals.

Source: Intermediate English short passage

And we've got about 18 or 20 other mounds around us.

Source: BBC documentary "A Hundred Treasures Talk About the Changes of Time"

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