mound

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mound [mound mounds mounded mounding] BrE [maʊnd] NAmE [maʊnd] noun
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
Syn: ↑heap
•a small mound of rice/sand
3. ~ of sth (informal)a large amount of sth
Syn: ↑heap
•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

Word Origin:
early 16th cent. (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’.

Example Bank:
•The church stands on a high mound just outside the village.
•a great mound of paperwork
•a neat mound of leaves
•a small tree on a grassy mound
•He covered the mound of rice on his plate with the sauce.

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  pitcher, hill, pile, heap, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus, knoll, hillock, hummock, hammock, pitcher's mound