Noun: mound
| Singular | mound |
| Plural | mounds |
Sample Sentences
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The pitcher was waiting at the mound.
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[…] the men were now also massaging her mounds, their fingers soothing and kneading while they sucked at her aching nipples. [2025, Jan Springer, Jasmine Black, Captured (page 257)]
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a mound of mashed potato
Nouns inflected like mound
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. 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”).
2. 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. See: Old English Nouns '
mund', Latin Nouns '
manus', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μάρη'.
Verbs referencing "mound"
Latin Nouns
manus.