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mound

noun
/maʊnd/

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.

  1. inherited from *mh₂-nt-éh₂✻
  2. inherited from *mundō✻
  3. inherited from *mundu✻
  4. inherited from mund
  5. inherited from mound

Definitions

  1. An artificial hill or elevation of earth

    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 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.

    • The pitcher was waiting at the mound.
  4. ›+ 11 more definitions

    1. A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is…

      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.

    2. The mons veneris.

    3. A hand.

    4. A protection

      A protection; restraint; curb.

    5. A helmet.

    6. Might

      Might; size.

    7. A large amount of something.

      • a mound of mashed potato

    8. To fortify with a mound

      To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.

    9. 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.

    10. To form a mound.

      • 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.

    11. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

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Derived

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, amound, remound, unmounded

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at mound. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at mound. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at mound

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA