What is another word for mounds?

Pronunciation: [mˈa͡ʊndz] (IPA)

The term "mounds" can be described using a variety of synonyms. One possible alternative is "hillocks", which refers to small or gentle hills. Another option is "knolls", which are rounded elevations of land. "Tumuli" is another synonym for mounds and is often used to describe burial sites or ancient graveyards. In addition to these, "barrows" and "cairns" are also synonyms for mounds that are usually associated with burial grounds. "Embankments", "berms" and "elevations" are other words used to describe mounds. Whatever word is used, they all indicate raised areas of land that have a significant elevation above their surroundings.

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Usage examples for Mounds

On the northern side the low mounds are white with snow here and there.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
Outside, and as it seems but a stone's throw distant, stands the old grey church, and about it the still, silent, green-grown mounds over those who once followed the quiet plough.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The small meadows with double mounds have held captive many a stranger.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies

Famous quotes with Mounds

  • On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
    Karl Marx
  • If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed in line the philanthropist might travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, and be constantly in sight of green mounds.
    Nelson A. Miles
  • Early man recognised these lines of force and marked them out on the landscape with, well, any old thing, really—standing stones, ditches, mounds, tumps, sacred wells, and that sort of thing. And, later on, with churches, market crosses, crossroads, and whatnot.
    Stephen R. Lawhead
  • For every mound excavated in the Near East, a hundred remain untouched. ...most of the excavated mounds have been dug only in small part.
    Cyrus H. Gordon
  • When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze And the iron age; iron the unstable metal; Steel made of iron, unstable as his mother; the towered-up cities Will be stains of rust on mounds of plaster. Roots will not pierce the heaps for a time, kind rains will cure them, Then nothing will remain of the iron age And all these people but a thigh-bone or so, a poem Stuck in the world's thought, splinters of glass In the rubbish dumps, a concrete dam far off in the mountain...
    Robinson Jeffers

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