tumulus

Questions about tumulus

What does tumulus mean?

tumulus means "(archeology) a heap of earth placed over prehistoric tombs".

How many syllables are in tumulus?

tumulus has 3 syllables and divides as tu-mu-lus under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for tumulus?

Close synonyms include burial mound, grave mound, barrow. 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 tumulus a common word?

tumulus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.