Hoard
[hɔːd] or [hɔrd]
Definition
(noun.) a secret store of valuables or money.
(verb.) save up as for future use.
Edited by Lester--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) See Hoarding, 2.
(n.) A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.
(v. t.) To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.
(v. i.) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
Typist: Sharif
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Store (secretly), deposit, save, garner, husband, hive, accumulate, amass, treasure up, lay in, lay by, set by, lay up.
Inputed by Alisa
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Treasure, accumulate, husband, store_up, amass, heap_up, lay_up
ANT:Waste, squander, dissipate
Checked by Edwin
Definition
n. a store: a hidden stock: a treasure: a place for hiding anything.—v.t. to store: to amass and deposit in secret.—v.i. to store up: to collect and form a hoard.—n. Hoard′er.
n. a hurdle or fence enclosing a house and materials while builders are at work: any boarding on which bills are posted.
Editor: Tamara
Examples
- Convinced of his security from Persia, Pericles spent the war hoard of the allies upon the beautification of his city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Not blaming me for getting a little hoard together? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The same violence which made it convenient to hoard, made it equally convenient to conceal the hoard. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She went upstairs and took from a locked drawer a little box, out of which she poured a hoard of broad unworn guineas that had lain there many a year. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The same disposition, to save and to hoard, prevailed in the sovereign, as well as in the subjects. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It took many weeks to explore its whole contents; and Captain Holmes found it a very agreeable task to dive into the miser's secret hoards. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- A rough hoarding of boards had been knocked up before the vestry doorway. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He had hoarded, all these years, I found, to good purpose. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I hoarded it to purchase my freedom, said Gurth. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It owned great properties and often hoarded huge treasures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Men made sly and crude schemes to corner it, to hoard it, to send up prices by releasing hoarded metals. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- In their Vatican is stored up all that is curious and beautiful in art; in our Patent Office is hoarded all that is curious or useful in mechanics. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Why I hoarded up this last wretched little rag of the robe of hope that was rent and given to the winds, how do I know? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Checker: Micawber