Usually means: Raised area or heap, earth.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word mound:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. mound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. mound, mound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mound, mound: Wordnik
  7. mound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mound: Wiktionary
  9. mound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. mound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. mound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Mound, mound: Dictionary.com
  13. mound: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. mound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mound (disambiguation), Mound, The Mound (novella), The Mound (short story), The Mound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mound: Rhymezone
  19. mound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Mound: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. mound: Free Dictionary
  23. mound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mound: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. mound: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mound: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mound, the mound: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
noun:  A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
noun:  (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
noun:  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.
noun:  (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
noun:  (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
noun:  (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
noun:  (obsolete) A helmet.
noun:  (obsolete) Might; size.
noun:  a large amount of something.
verb:  (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
verb:  (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
verb:  (intransitive) To form a mound.

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