mound

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of MOUND

a pile or ridge of granular matter (as sand or snow) <mounds of snow after the plow had passed>

Synonyms bar, drift, mound

Related Words snowbank, snowdrift; embankment, sandbar; heap, hill, mass, mountain, stack, tuft

a quantity of things thrown or stacked on one another <an ever-growing mound of dirty laundry on the floor>

Synonyms cock, heap, hill, mound, mountain, stack

an area of high ground <a pitcher's mound>

Synonyms altitude(s), elevation, eminence, highland, hill, hump, mound, prominence, rise, upland

Related Words alp, mount, mountain, peak; butte, mesa, plateau, table, tableland; bluff, cliff, crag, precipice, steep, tor; ridge, sierra; dome, sugarloaf; foothill, hillock, hummock, knob, knoll; downs

Near Antonyms dale, dell, depression, dingle, glen, hollow, vale, valley; basin, bottom, bottomland, fen, flat, floodplain, plain, tidewater

Antonyms lowland

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