1 a large pile of earth or stones; a small hill:
a Bronze Age burial mound * The castle was built on top of a natural grassy mound.
2 a pile:
a small mound of rice / sand
3 ~ of sth (informal) a large amount of sth:
I've got a mound of paperwork to do.
4 (in baseball) the small hill where the player who throws the ball (called the PITCHER) stands
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for mound is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mound a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mound is tagged as noun.
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