Usually means: Ancient grave site, earthen structure.
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General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. burial mound: Merriam-Webster
  2. burial mound: Collins English Dictionary
  3. burial mound: Vocabulary.com
  4. burial-mound: Wordnik
  5. burial mound: Wiktionary
  6. burial mound: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. burial mound: Dictionary.com
  8. Burial mound, The Burial Mound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. burial mound: Rhymezone
  10. burial mound: FreeDictionary.org
  11. burial mound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. burial mound: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. burial mound: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (burial mound)

▸ noun:  A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves.

Similar:
tumulus, barrow, grave mound, gravemound, mounding, grave, hump, burying-ground, burying ground, berry, more...

Opposite:
grave, tomb, crypt, mausoleum

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Similar:
tumulus, barrow, grave mound, gravemound, mounding, grave, hump, burying-ground, burying ground, berry, more...

Opposite:
grave, tomb, crypt, mausoleum



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