kurgan: Meaning and Definition of

kur•gan

1. a circular burial mound constructed over a pit grave and often containing grave vessels, weapons, and the bodies of horses as well as a single human body; originally in use in the Russian Steppes but later spreading into eastern, central, and northern Europe in the third millennium b.c.

Kur•gan

1. a city in the S Russian Federation in Asia, near the Ural Mountains. 310,000.