1. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables: search for buried treasure; spending much of the national treasure on armaments.

2. Valuable or precious possessions of any kind.

3. One considered especially precious or valuable: bought several treasures at the estate sale; saw her assistant as a treasure.

1. To keep or regard as precious; value highly. See Synonyms at appreciate.

2. To accumulate or store away, as for future use: "This same withered and crumbling flower ... Five and fifty years it has been treasured between the leaves of this old volume" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).