They planted the cannon on the tumuli, sole elevations in this level country, and formed themselves into column and hollow square.
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Tumulus
//ˈtuːmjələs//
Synonyms for "tumulus" (31 found)
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36 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- κολώνη noun (mound of earth)
Bulgarian
1 entries- гробна могила noun (mound of earth)
Czech
1 entries- mohyla noun (mound of earth)
Danish
1 entries- gravhøj noun (mound of earth)
Dutch
1 entries- grafheuvel noun (mound of earth)
Esperanto
1 entries- tumulo noun (mound of earth)
Finnish
1 entries- hautakumpu noun (mound of earth)
French
1 entries- tumulus noun (mound of earth)
Galician
4 entries- borróa noun (mound of earth)
- medela noun (mound of earth)
- medorra noun (mound of earth)
- medoña noun (mound of earth)
Ido
1 entries- tumulo noun (mound of earth)
Ingrian
2 entries- hautapeentara noun (mound of earth)
- kalma noun (mound of earth)
Irish
3 entries- dumha noun (mound of earth)
- tuaim noun (mound of earth)
- tuama noun (mound of earth)
Japanese
2 entries- 古墳 noun (mound of earth)
- 墳丘墓 noun (mound of earth)
Latin
2 entries- tumulus noun (mound of earth)
- tumulāmen noun (mound of earth)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- gravhaug noun (mound of earth)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- gravhaug noun (mound of earth)
Polish
2 entries- kopiec noun (mound of earth)
- kurhan noun (mound of earth)
Portuguese
2 entries- mamoa noun (mound of earth)
- túmulo noun (mound of earth)
Romanian
1 entries- tumul noun (mound of earth)
Russian
1 entries- курга́н noun (mound of earth)
Serbo-Croatian
1 entries- tumulus noun (mound of earth)
Spanish
2 entries- caballón noun (mound of earth)
- túmulo noun (mound of earth)
Turkish
1 entries- tümülüs noun (mound of earth)
Sample sentences
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Near Smeinogorsk an octagonal tumulus has been found containing the corpse of a horse near a rectangular one with a human corpse, both within stone circles.
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The delicate white body will be covered to-day, The tumulus be reared, the green sod give way: And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.
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The tumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C. […] Examples of tumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.
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