Treasure
['treʒə] or ['trɛʒɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a collection of precious things; 'the trunk held all her meager treasures'.
(noun.) any possession that is highly valued by its owner; 'the children returned from the seashore with their shells and other treasures'.
(noun.) accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; 'the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies'.
Typed by Adele--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
(n.) A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.
(n.) That which is very much valued.
(v. t.) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.
Checker: Micawber
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Money (hoarded up), funds, cash, wealth.[2]. Stock, store, reserve.[3]. Precious thing, thing of great value.
v. a. Hoard, store, garner, save, husband, lay in, lay by, lay up, treasure up.
Inputed by DeWitt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Hoard, accumulate, save, value, enshrine, idolize
ANT:Scatter, squander, dissipate, disregard, disesteem, prostitute, waste, betray
SYN:Jewel, store, valuable, cash, bullion, accumulation, abundance, stock, wealth,riches, hoard, gem, paragon, model
ANT:Trash, offal, refuse, scum, dregs, dirt
Typed by Corinne
Definition
n. wealth stored up: riches: a great quantity collected: great abundance: anything much valued: (obs.) a treasure-house.—v.t. to board up: to collect for future use: to value greatly: to enrich.—ns. Treas′ure-chest a box for keeping articles of value; Treas′ure-cit′y a city for stores magazines &c.; Treas′ure-house a house for holding treasures; Treas′urer one who has the care of a treasure or treasury: one who has charge of collected funds; Treas′urership; Treas′ury a place where treasure is deposited: a department of a government which has charge of the finances: one of a class of subterranean structures now believed to be merely sepulchral; Treas′ury-bench the first row of seats on the Speaker's right hand in the House of Commons occupied by the members of the government.
Edited by Carlos
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you find treasures, denotes that you will be greatly aided in your pursuit of fortune by some unexpected generosity. If you lose treasures, bad luck in business and the inconstancy of friends is foretold.
Typist: Louis
Examples
- By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- At last he grasped the manuscript upon which Jane Porter had been writing, and as cautiously withdrew his arm and hand, holding the precious treasure. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I am deeply sensible of your generosity, and I shall treasure its remembrance to my dying hour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Where is the treasure? Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Our treasure was warranted sober and honest. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Oh, William, she added, holding out her hand to the Major, what a treasure Heaven has given me in that boy! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- And we can set a watch over our affections and our constancy as we can over other treasures. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nathaniel Pipkin had ocular demonstration of the fact, that the rumours of old Lobbs's treasures were not exaggerated. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- What those treasures are they keep so secret that the court is maddened. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Beautiful records of such beginnings of science were among the neglected treasures of the rich men's libraries throughout the imperial domains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Winter seemed conquering her spring; the mind's soil and its treasures were freezing gradually to barren stagnation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He breathed a sigh of relief as he drew out the little tin box, and, opening it, found his greatest treasures undisturbed. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- I would not lose her now, for all the treasures of the world. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- How he treasured these papers! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I picked up one, of several that were rolling about, and treasured it as a keepsake for a long time. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Elinor joyfully treasured her words as she answered, If you could be assured of that, you think you should be easy. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- How I treasured up the entries, of which I subjoin a sample--! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Am I a friend to be treasured in the best corner of your heart, or am I not? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I never thought it would go where it could tell tales, said Jo, tearing up the verses the Professor had treasured so long. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- She had not confided in me; I could not demand an explanation from Raymond without the hazard of betraying what was perhaps her most treasured secret. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
Checker: Raymond