mound builder

Questions about mound builder

What does mound builder mean?

mound builder means "prehistoric Amerindians who built altar mounds". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for mound builder?

Close synonyms include megapode, mound bird, mound-bird, scrub fowl. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mound builder a common word?

mound builder is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.