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noun maʊndmaʊnd 1A rounded mass projecting above a surface. the bushes were little more than vague mounds beneath the snow Example sentencesExamples - The faecal casts retained their original coiled form on the sediment surface for several days but then gradually collapsed into a featureless mound on the sediment surface.
- To make the base sift the flour and salt into a mound on a work surface and make a well in the centre.
- The male appears to select the site, and both parents build the nest, a mound of muddy tundra vegetation with a depression at the center.
- He protects the eggs from the hot summer sun by adding sand or soil to the mound as a shield.
- Skulls, clothing and limbs still protrude from the mound of sand, more than six months after the event.
- The first signs of growth are in late winter when tight buds of foliage make a neat mound on the surface of the soil.
- The same goes for soil mounds you may have placed over your older bushes last fall.
- In early summer, foot-long flower stalks poke above the mounds of leaves.
- These easy-to-grow plants form mounds of foliage studded with flowers, sometimes so tightly packed that the leaves are barely visible.
- Through the dust we saw the bricks in a mound upon the floor.
- The male gathers nesting material, and the female builds a shallow mound on a shoreline.
- Despite their pleas to both the council's environmental and waste management departments to remove the unsightly mounds the group has been told nothing can be done because the litter is on private land.
- We lunched on chicken drumsticks, sat on a mound of sand; shielding our faces from the wind in our floppy hoods before hunting for shells and stones.
- The garden seemed to be doing fine, except for a foot-high mound of chewed-up dirt on the grass near the edge of the garden.
- The water current moves over the sand surface building up mounds of sand.
- Homes atop the town's hills were reduced to mounds of shingles and splintered wood.
- 1.1 A small hill.
he built his castle high upon the mound Example sentencesExamples - We got out there in a boat and discovered that the fish were congregating in an area which had a large underwater feature, a rocky mound rising up some eight feet above an otherwise featureless lake bed.
- On the top of the mound was a worn down cottage of a house, made of wood and braced by a large tree.
- We went up and over a rise, and I looked out upon a plain, with three high mounds green with grass before us.
- From that time until he gave up painting in the mid-1990s, the volcanic mounds of Auckland and the blue Waitemata remained a central part of his iconography.
- Jake flipped over and spread his arms across the grassy mound he lay upon.
- I think it all goes back to growing up in Nigeria - one day in mid summer, I climbed up a little hillock, more of a mound, I suppose, to get a better view of a coming thunderstorm.
- He noticed Hunter and Brandon heading up a slight incline to the peak of a small mound, and chased after them.
- Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas.
- Goff's Caye, a dark green mangrove island a quarter-mile to our south, is only a low mound rising up from the water.
- It bored four holes from the top of the hill to its base to allow sensitive recording equipment to be lowered inside the mound to provide a 3D image of the hill.
- Within minutes you will see our first objective, Wath Hill, a grassy mound with a copse.
- Their mountain is a rather humble affair - more of a mound than a mountain.
Synonyms hillock, hill, knoll, rise, hummock, hump, embankment, bank, ridge, dune, tor, elevation, acclivity Geology drumlin Scottish brae North American or technical butte rare tump - 1.2 A raised mass of earth and stones created for purposes of defence or burial.
the dead were cremated, and then buried at the centre of a great mound Example sentencesExamples - Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts.
- Groups of round burial mounds known to archaeologists as barrow cemeteries, often aligned on contours below ridges, are common in Wessex and the Thames valley.
- Bronze Age burial mounds, Iron Age settlements and the remains of Roman villages could be lost forever unless prompt action is taken to stop our furry friends from wrecking this historic area.
- Before you get carried away with mirth, this is actually a serious situation: the animals are wreaking havoc on Neolithic burial mounds around the famous site.
- They knew that a wooded mound nearby hid the legendary tomb of the great emperor and so they thought this, too, was a part of it.
- English Heritage is developing a management strategy to restore Bronze Age burial mounds that have been damaged by burrowing badgers and to protect those that remain untouched.
- That's why they burned down their straw shelters and left no trace of their dwellings, only their sarcophagi and burial mounds.
- Much of the frontier became ‘civilized’ at the cost of shrinking Seminole lands and desecrating Indian burial mounds.
- The raiding party had taken with them only the simplest of tools: but as they dug into the mound over the sarcophagus they were soon stopped by the heavy stonework.
- Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
- The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
- When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts, in a word, their archaeology.
- These societies are well known for their funerary ceremonialism, most notably the building of burial mounds.
- As with so many Beaker burial sites of this date, the mound was not raised to commemorate a single grave.
- The new circle is bigger than Seahenge and has been interpreted as the remains of a Bronze Age burial mound.
- These are burial mounds of Bronze Age date, many from about 2000 BC to 1500 BC and they cluster in their hundreds around the Stonehenge area.
- Bishops Cannings farmer Bob Frearson is in the process of putting up fences to prevent 4x4 drivers getting on to his land and using ancient burial mounds, or tumuli, as an off-road assault course.
- It will include visiting ancient and powerful local places: ring forts, burial mounds, and megalithic tombs in Roscommon and Sligo.
- The remains of several Neolithic passage graves and over thirty Iron Age burial mounds can also be seen.
- The tumuli, or ancient burial mounds, are obvious enough and we have always been able to work around them.
- These bikes uproot heather and, if they run over Iron Age ancient burial mounds, the damage would be irreversible.
- The oldest known ancient monuments at Coate are the Neolithic Stone Circle and the Bronze age burial mound along Day House Lane.
Synonyms barrow, tumulus motte Middle East tell Russian kurgan - 1.3Baseball A slight elevation from which the pitcher delivers the ball.
Example sentencesExamples - The rush I get whenever I step onto the pitcher's mound is just amazing.
- The batter hits a ball toward the mound that the pitcher deflects toward the second baseman.
- He walked right up to me on the pitcher's mound, interrupting a baseball game I was playing with some young boys.
- And, he also can take comfort in the fact he's got a pretty smart pitcher on the mound who thrives on mental challenges.
- Here's a rundown of some of the most glaring failures at bat, in the field, or on the mound in a single World Series.
- Connie Mack signaled his pitcher off the mound and we all looked toward the bullpen to see who was coming in.
2a mound of/mounds ofA large pile or quantity of something. a mound of dirty crockery Example sentencesExamples - I heard her filling the stove with wood as I shook with cold beneath the mound of blankets.
- People came and went, and a mound of gifts was slowly piling higher in the halls of the castle.
- The thief smiled at the small mound of diamonds piled inside.
- He runs down, only to discover it's a mound of garbage.
- There was a toppling pile of presents on the dining room table and a mound of pancakes waiting for her.
- Search teams, who had shovels and a few bulldozers, were joined by survivors using their bare hands to tear at the mounds of rubble in the hope of finding anyone alive beneath the ruins.
- Heavy rain had churned the camp's dirt roads to mud, but failed to drown the smell of rotting corpses that still lie beneath mounds of masonry.
- Massive mounds of garbage are piling up along the beaches and roadsides.
- He and his colleagues in the Tadcaster Fraud Squad were confronted with a mound of paperwork, huge piles of loose papers, all of which had to be read and understood.
- One day they came upon a mound of millet, along with stores of barley, wheat, and other seeds.
- It's quite alarming to discover a mound of dirty washing strewn over your kitchen floor when you're least expecting it.
- Various studies say that cities will have dogs so long as they continue to pile up mounds of garbage.
- The streets of Bam are still filled with mounds of rubble.
- At the morning meal the girls consume a slim helping of porridge before the camera moves behind the screen that separates them from the nuns to reveal the sisters tucking in to slabs of bread and jam, mountains of sausages and mounds of bacon.
- The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
- I wondered if they recognized me as the one who is always putting out nuts for them on her bedroom window sill or if they were just chirping at the odd humans moving large mounds of snow?
- Mike looked at the mounds of snow he and his father had shoveled.
- I was sitting in my office, surrounded by a mound of paperwork.
- And who are the people most responsible for the mounds of garbage in town?
- In one corner, underneath a mound of empty cardboard boxes I found a large pile of the exquisite light fittings from the Chinese Room.
- Well, try painstaking research, lots of waiting around, mounds of paperwork.
- The volunteers piled up mounds of rubbish, including old prams, gates and fences and hoped the Council would remove it.
- Plus, there's a mound of leftover gravel from our deck landscaping project.
- The cops fill out a mound of paperwork and call a tow truck.
Synonyms heap, pile, stack mass, collection, accumulation, aggregation, assemblage mountain, pyramid Scottish, Irish, & Northern English rickle Scottish bing
verb maʊndmaʊnd [with object]1Heap up into a rounded pile. basmati rice was mounded on our plates Example sentencesExamples - If you don't have a pastry bag, use a spoon to mound the meringue on the wax paper and make a well in the middle, creating a bowl-shaped shell.
- Another charming idea comes from the 19th Century gardens when seats were created by mounding the soil and planting chamomile thickly over the entire mound, or seat.
- Make a home for insects to breed and shelter by creating a log pile of dead or rotting wood, or mound up rocks or stones in a quiet shady area of the garden.
- This soil should be mounded up around the base of the canes to a height of 10 to 12 inches.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- Tip the mixture into an ovenproof dish, mounding it up in the middle.
- She mounded the soil so the center of the bed was the highest point and firmed the soil by tamping it down with her feet to prevent it from flattening over time.
- Toss the vegetables and cilantro with the noodles, and mound the mixture on a platter.
- The pines are now taller and blacker and the glossy mounded foliage of native shrubs covers the banks of cuttings more densely.
- The traditional way to blanch asparagus is to mound mulch or sand around the spears as they emerge.
- If you put the tub above ground, you can build a waterfall but you will have to mound dirt around it to help conceal it.
- For miniature roses mounding the soil up around the rose as it remains upright may also be an option.
- Beyond, the huge jutting tower, crumbled walls and mounded stones of the ruined castle resembled some massive mythical beast dozing at the river's edge.
- I saved the soil from the excavation and mounded it on the north side for insulation.
- Temporarily store plants in a V-shaped trench mounded with soil.
- With clean hands, mound the rice into a cone shape about four inches in diameter and about five inches high.
- A white-jacketed waiter brought plates mounded with chicken and rice cooked over a fire.
- The graves were so close together that people attending my relative's funeral were stumbling over the soil mounded on the grave next door.
- See how I mounded the salad in the middle and created a border of dill with the goat cheese layered on top?
- Cover the plastic with a thin layer of fir bark or similar mulch, taking care not to mound it around plant crowns.
- This is especially important when dining at restaurants that mound enough for two on a plate for one.
- You see, to maximize the stalk size they're grown either in trenches or with soil mounded around each plant.
Synonyms pile, pile up, heap, heap up 2archaic Enclose or fortify with an embankment. a sand-built ridge Of heaped hills that mound the sea
Phrases (of a pitcher) have a turn at pitching. he took the mound yesterday for the first in time in over a year Example sentencesExamples - In one game against the St. Louis Cardinals, he took the mound in the first inning and went the rest of the way for a victory.
- When Clemens took the mound in Game Four, he became the third oldest pitcher ever to start a World Series game.
- On July 9, 1948, baseball's oldest rookie took the mound for the Cleveland Indians.
- When he takes the mound, the team behind him knows they have a chance, and that's probably the biggest compliment you can give somebody.
- Yesterday, two Cuban pitchers took the mound in front of Major League scouts in an attempt to attract a large offer.
Origin Early 16th century (as a verb in the sense 'enclose with a fence or hedge'): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was 'boundary hedge or fence'. Rhymes abound, aground, around, astound, bound, compound, confound, dumbfound, expound, found, ground, hound, impound, interwound, pound, profound, propound, redound, round, sound, stoneground, surround, theatre-in-the-round (US theater-in-the-round), underground, wound noun maʊndmaʊnd archaic A ball representing the earth, used as part of royal regalia, e.g. on top of a crown, typically of gold and surmounted by a cross. Example sentencesExamples - The diamond mound is topped by a diamond ‘cross pattee’ with a sapphire in the center of the cross.
- The importance of this conclusion to Brook was that it seemed to supply evidence that there had been a mound and cross above the arches of the crown before the present ones, which he felt sure were of French workmanship and dated from the 1540 reconstruction of the crown.
Origin Middle English (denoting the world): from Old French monde, from Latin mundus 'world'. nounmaʊndmound 1A rounded mass projecting above a surface. Example sentencesExamples - The garden seemed to be doing fine, except for a foot-high mound of chewed-up dirt on the grass near the edge of the garden.
- The same goes for soil mounds you may have placed over your older bushes last fall.
- Skulls, clothing and limbs still protrude from the mound of sand, more than six months after the event.
- The male gathers nesting material, and the female builds a shallow mound on a shoreline.
- The male appears to select the site, and both parents build the nest, a mound of muddy tundra vegetation with a depression at the center.
- In early summer, foot-long flower stalks poke above the mounds of leaves.
- We lunched on chicken drumsticks, sat on a mound of sand; shielding our faces from the wind in our floppy hoods before hunting for shells and stones.
- To make the base sift the flour and salt into a mound on a work surface and make a well in the centre.
- Homes atop the town's hills were reduced to mounds of shingles and splintered wood.
- The water current moves over the sand surface building up mounds of sand.
- The faecal casts retained their original coiled form on the sediment surface for several days but then gradually collapsed into a featureless mound on the sediment surface.
- These easy-to-grow plants form mounds of foliage studded with flowers, sometimes so tightly packed that the leaves are barely visible.
- Despite their pleas to both the council's environmental and waste management departments to remove the unsightly mounds the group has been told nothing can be done because the litter is on private land.
- The first signs of growth are in late winter when tight buds of foliage make a neat mound on the surface of the soil.
- He protects the eggs from the hot summer sun by adding sand or soil to the mound as a shield.
- Through the dust we saw the bricks in a mound upon the floor.
- 1.1 A raised mass of earth, stones, or other compacted material, sometimes created artificially for purposes of defense or burial.
Example sentencesExamples - When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts, in a word, their archaeology.
- That's why they burned down their straw shelters and left no trace of their dwellings, only their sarcophagi and burial mounds.
- Much of the frontier became ‘civilized’ at the cost of shrinking Seminole lands and desecrating Indian burial mounds.
- Bishops Cannings farmer Bob Frearson is in the process of putting up fences to prevent 4x4 drivers getting on to his land and using ancient burial mounds, or tumuli, as an off-road assault course.
- The oldest known ancient monuments at Coate are the Neolithic Stone Circle and the Bronze age burial mound along Day House Lane.
- Before you get carried away with mirth, this is actually a serious situation: the animals are wreaking havoc on Neolithic burial mounds around the famous site.
- As with so many Beaker burial sites of this date, the mound was not raised to commemorate a single grave.
- The raiding party had taken with them only the simplest of tools: but as they dug into the mound over the sarcophagus they were soon stopped by the heavy stonework.
- English Heritage is developing a management strategy to restore Bronze Age burial mounds that have been damaged by burrowing badgers and to protect those that remain untouched.
- Across Britain and Ireland there are thousands of Iron Age barrows and burial mounds, and hundreds of Iron Age hill forts.
- The tumuli, or ancient burial mounds, are obvious enough and we have always been able to work around them.
- The tenuous suggestion that Stonehenge may thus be a sepulchral monument, is perhaps strengthened by the large number of burial mounds in the surrounding landscape.
- It will include visiting ancient and powerful local places: ring forts, burial mounds, and megalithic tombs in Roscommon and Sligo.
- These are burial mounds of Bronze Age date, many from about 2000 BC to 1500 BC and they cluster in their hundreds around the Stonehenge area.
- Groups of round burial mounds known to archaeologists as barrow cemeteries, often aligned on contours below ridges, are common in Wessex and the Thames valley.
- These societies are well known for their funerary ceremonialism, most notably the building of burial mounds.
- These bikes uproot heather and, if they run over Iron Age ancient burial mounds, the damage would be irreversible.
- Some of the many points of interest include early features such as burial mounds, stone circles and cairns that mark areas of prehistoric cultivation.
- The remains of several Neolithic passage graves and over thirty Iron Age burial mounds can also be seen.
- The new circle is bigger than Seahenge and has been interpreted as the remains of a Bronze Age burial mound.
- They knew that a wooded mound nearby hid the legendary tomb of the great emperor and so they thought this, too, was a part of it.
- Bronze Age burial mounds, Iron Age settlements and the remains of Roman villages could be lost forever unless prompt action is taken to stop our furry friends from wrecking this historic area.
- 1.2 A small hill.
Example sentencesExamples - Their mountain is a rather humble affair - more of a mound than a mountain.
- Within minutes you will see our first objective, Wath Hill, a grassy mound with a copse.
- We got out there in a boat and discovered that the fish were congregating in an area which had a large underwater feature, a rocky mound rising up some eight feet above an otherwise featureless lake bed.
- It bored four holes from the top of the hill to its base to allow sensitive recording equipment to be lowered inside the mound to provide a 3D image of the hill.
- Jake flipped over and spread his arms across the grassy mound he lay upon.
- Chemrey Monastery, in Ladakh, perches at 3000m on a rocky mound among the arid mountain tops of the Himalayas.
- From that time until he gave up painting in the mid-1990s, the volcanic mounds of Auckland and the blue Waitemata remained a central part of his iconography.
- I think it all goes back to growing up in Nigeria - one day in mid summer, I climbed up a little hillock, more of a mound, I suppose, to get a better view of a coming thunderstorm.
- On the top of the mound was a worn down cottage of a house, made of wood and braced by a large tree.
- We went up and over a rise, and I looked out upon a plain, with three high mounds green with grass before us.
- Goff's Caye, a dark green mangrove island a quarter-mile to our south, is only a low mound rising up from the water.
- He noticed Hunter and Brandon heading up a slight incline to the peak of a small mound, and chased after them.
Synonyms hillock, hill, knoll, rise, hummock, hump, embankment, bank, ridge, dune, tor, elevation, acclivity, tump - 1.3a mound of/mounds of A large pile or quantity of something.
burying potential problems under mounds of cash Example sentencesExamples - I wondered if they recognized me as the one who is always putting out nuts for them on her bedroom window sill or if they were just chirping at the odd humans moving large mounds of snow?
- He runs down, only to discover it's a mound of garbage.
- Plus, there's a mound of leftover gravel from our deck landscaping project.
- Various studies say that cities will have dogs so long as they continue to pile up mounds of garbage.
- Search teams, who had shovels and a few bulldozers, were joined by survivors using their bare hands to tear at the mounds of rubble in the hope of finding anyone alive beneath the ruins.
- Well, try painstaking research, lots of waiting around, mounds of paperwork.
- The streets of Bam are still filled with mounds of rubble.
- He and his colleagues in the Tadcaster Fraud Squad were confronted with a mound of paperwork, huge piles of loose papers, all of which had to be read and understood.
- At the morning meal the girls consume a slim helping of porridge before the camera moves behind the screen that separates them from the nuns to reveal the sisters tucking in to slabs of bread and jam, mountains of sausages and mounds of bacon.
- People came and went, and a mound of gifts was slowly piling higher in the halls of the castle.
- The cops fill out a mound of paperwork and call a tow truck.
- The volunteers piled up mounds of rubbish, including old prams, gates and fences and hoped the Council would remove it.
- Massive mounds of garbage are piling up along the beaches and roadsides.
- It's quite alarming to discover a mound of dirty washing strewn over your kitchen floor when you're least expecting it.
- One day they came upon a mound of millet, along with stores of barley, wheat, and other seeds.
- I was sitting in my office, surrounded by a mound of paperwork.
- In one corner, underneath a mound of empty cardboard boxes I found a large pile of the exquisite light fittings from the Chinese Room.
- I heard her filling the stove with wood as I shook with cold beneath the mound of blankets.
- Heavy rain had churned the camp's dirt roads to mud, but failed to drown the smell of rotting corpses that still lie beneath mounds of masonry.
- There was a toppling pile of presents on the dining room table and a mound of pancakes waiting for her.
- Mike looked at the mounds of snow he and his father had shoveled.
- And who are the people most responsible for the mounds of garbage in town?
- The mound of dirty clothing just keeps piling up until your hamper is overflowing and a sea of denim, cotton and corduroy forms a carpet on the floor of your bedroom.
- The thief smiled at the small mound of diamonds piled inside.
- 1.4Baseball The elevated area from which the pitcher delivers the ball.
Example sentencesExamples - Connie Mack signaled his pitcher off the mound and we all looked toward the bullpen to see who was coming in.
- And, he also can take comfort in the fact he's got a pretty smart pitcher on the mound who thrives on mental challenges.
- Here's a rundown of some of the most glaring failures at bat, in the field, or on the mound in a single World Series.
- The rush I get whenever I step onto the pitcher's mound is just amazing.
- He walked right up to me on the pitcher's mound, interrupting a baseball game I was playing with some young boys.
- The batter hits a ball toward the mound that the pitcher deflects toward the second baseman.
verbmaʊndmound [with object]1Heap up into a rounded pile. mound the pie filling slightly in the center Example sentencesExamples - The graves were so close together that people attending my relative's funeral were stumbling over the soil mounded on the grave next door.
- If you put the tub above ground, you can build a waterfall but you will have to mound dirt around it to help conceal it.
- Toss the vegetables and cilantro with the noodles, and mound the mixture on a platter.
- She mounded the soil so the center of the bed was the highest point and firmed the soil by tamping it down with her feet to prevent it from flattening over time.
- You see, to maximize the stalk size they're grown either in trenches or with soil mounded around each plant.
- Cover the plastic with a thin layer of fir bark or similar mulch, taking care not to mound it around plant crowns.
- Beyond, the huge jutting tower, crumbled walls and mounded stones of the ruined castle resembled some massive mythical beast dozing at the river's edge.
- A white-jacketed waiter brought plates mounded with chicken and rice cooked over a fire.
- If you don't have a pastry bag, use a spoon to mound the meringue on the wax paper and make a well in the middle, creating a bowl-shaped shell.
- Tip the mixture into an ovenproof dish, mounding it up in the middle.
- For miniature roses mounding the soil up around the rose as it remains upright may also be an option.
- This soil should be mounded up around the base of the canes to a height of 10 to 12 inches.
- Make a home for insects to breed and shelter by creating a log pile of dead or rotting wood, or mound up rocks or stones in a quiet shady area of the garden.
- Temporarily store plants in a V-shaped trench mounded with soil.
- The traditional way to blanch asparagus is to mound mulch or sand around the spears as they emerge.
- The pines are now taller and blacker and the glossy mounded foliage of native shrubs covers the banks of cuttings more densely.
- See how I mounded the salad in the middle and created a border of dill with the goat cheese layered on top?
- Another charming idea comes from the 19th Century gardens when seats were created by mounding the soil and planting chamomile thickly over the entire mound, or seat.
- This is especially important when dining at restaurants that mound enough for two on a plate for one.
- With clean hands, mound the rice into a cone shape about four inches in diameter and about five inches high.
- I saved the soil from the excavation and mounded it on the north side for insulation.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Synonyms pile, pile up, heap, heap up - 1.1archaic Enclose, bound, or fortify with an embankment.
Phrases (of a pitcher) have a turn at pitching. Morris will take the mound Tuesday Example sentencesExamples - Yesterday, two Cuban pitchers took the mound in front of Major League scouts in an attempt to attract a large offer.
- When he takes the mound, the team behind him knows they have a chance, and that's probably the biggest compliment you can give somebody.
- On July 9, 1948, baseball's oldest rookie took the mound for the Cleveland Indians.
- When Clemens took the mound in Game Four, he became the third oldest pitcher ever to start a World Series game.
- In one game against the St. Louis Cardinals, he took the mound in the first inning and went the rest of the way for a victory.
Origin Early 16th century (as a verb in the sense ‘enclose with a fence or hedge’): of obscure origin. An early sense of the noun was ‘boundary hedge or fence’. nounmaʊndmound archaic A ball representing the earth, used as part of royal regalia, e.g. on top of a crown, typically of gold and surmounted by a cross. Example sentencesExamples - The importance of this conclusion to Brook was that it seemed to supply evidence that there had been a mound and cross above the arches of the crown before the present ones, which he felt sure were of French workmanship and dated from the 1540 reconstruction of the crown.
- The diamond mound is topped by a diamond ‘cross pattee’ with a sapphire in the center of the cross.
Origin Middle English (denoting the world): from Old French monde, from Latin mundus ‘world’. |