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单词 hoard
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Definition of hoard in English:

hoard

noun hɔːdhɔrd
  • 1A stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded.

    he came back to rescue his little hoard of gold
    Example sentencesExamples
    • ‘It is imperative that you stockpile a large hoard of munchable treats,’ she says.
    • In one endless makeup bag there contained her secret stash, a hoard of makeup, creams, colors and bottles smelling of lavender and rose.
    • The squad put in some fantastic swims, collecting a hoard of medals in the process.
    • Luckily for investors, Gateway has a huge hoard of cash, and can continue to lose money for a few years without going bankrupt.
    • The Boeing jumbo was insured for $1.75 billion, and the company has a cash hoard of more than $1 billion.
    • His characters stay in a hotel annexed to the British Museum, so they're absorbed into its hoard of pillaged imperial trophies.
    • Good memories, mostly, and a hoard of treasures for the inner eye.
    • Part of a hoard of family silver which vanished for more than 100 years was yesterday sold at auction for nearly £8,000.
    • At one time there were over 3,000 statues at the site, and an inestimable hoard of gold and jewellery.
    • A treasure hoard has already landed in Singapore, and more money is on its way.
    • Against the best the country could offer the Carlow participants excelled, bringing back a hoard of medals in several disciplines.
    • A York gardener was caught red-handed with a hoard of stolen statues, gnomes and ornaments, magistrates heard.
    • While digging for roots he finds a hoard of gold, which has now no value for him.
    • Hutchison has said it has a cash hoard of nearly $13 billion.
    • The burglars escaped with a hoard of limited edition bone china, porcelain and pottery collectables leaving behind only muddy footprints.
    • Many apparently converted their money hoards or business activities to dollars.
    • His final explanation for the hoard was that the money came from his wages as a mechanic and panel beater.
    • A police raid on a one-bedroom flat turned up a hoard of nearly 2,000 weapons, including guns and ammunition.
    Synonyms
    cache, stockpile, stock, store, collection, supply, reserve, reservoir, fund, accumulation, heap, pile, mass, aggregation, conglomeration, treasure house, treasure trove
    informal stash
    rare amassment
    1. 1.1 An ancient store of coins or other valuable artefacts.
      a hoard of Romano-British bronzes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Minted AD 615-30, this is by far the oldest coin in the hoard.
      • The previously illegible texts are among a hoard of papyrus manuscripts.
      • Dating back 2,000 years, they are one of the first examples of Iron Age coin hoards to be seen in Britain.
      • The talks ranged from the ‘History of the Rabbit’ to the discovery of the Silsden hoard of silver coins.
      • An important hoard of gold torcs, bronze bracelets and amber beads was found at Dooyork, Co. Mayo, in November 2001.
      • At least the frugal Germans and their coin hoards will bring some joy to archaeologists in the fourth millennium.
      • This medallion was part of a hoard found in an ancient shipwreck outside the coast of Corsica early in the 1970s.
      • I also just remembered a dream where, in part of it, we uncovered this hoard of old coins, like it was a pirate treasure or something.
      • The high quality of the pottery, along with hoards of gold and silver found at Indus Valley sites, suggest great accumulation of wealth.
      • He said: ‘Almost certainly, this was a group of coins buried as a hoard.’
      • All day he had been devotedly guarding the naive angel, like an ancient dragon watching over a secret hoard of jewels and golden trinkets.
      • Mike begins listening to long forgotten audiotapes of a therapy session, while Hank discovers a hoard of old-time coins and treasures buried in the wall.
      • Coin hoards are a notable feature of the period, again perhaps indicating instability.
      • Last season finds included a hoard of four late bronze age socketed axes and the new art.
      • Coin hoards have been found in Wales dating to the 9th, 10th, and 11th cents., but the coins were foreign, mainly English, Viking, or Arabic.
      • Sober estimates of the numbers of coins in the Wanborough hoard, mostly of Iron Age gold and silver, start at over 9,000.
      • A slave had come to the entrance of the dragon's lair, saw a hoard of treasure and gold, and fled with a jewel-studded golden cup.
      • One of the most famous hoards of Roman coins is the Arras hoard.
      • Fortunately, experts have managed to salvage a number of priceless relics, including a huge hoard of Ancient Greek gold in Kerch.
      • High-class Roman artefacts and coin hoards north of the frontier have been interpreted as such diplomatic gifts or subsidies, but they are few in number.
    2. 1.2 An amassed store of useful information, retained for future use.
      a hoard of secret information about his work
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even so, he wrote no books and produced only a few papers and lectures, though he amassed an enormous hoard of notes.
      • If we mined the other inquisition records for further nuggets, we might amass a useful hoard of such information.
verb hɔːdhɔrd
[with object]
  • 1Accumulate (money or valued objects) and hide or store away.

    thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector
    Example sentencesExamples
    • When Roderigo discovers that Iago has been hoarding his money he screams at Iago and threatens him.
    • He's spent the past two years hoarding money and watching everything that moves in Europe's utility sector.
    • Hence, gold began to replace silver in circulation, causing the latter to be hoarded or exported.
    • But he grew up poor, and had something with hoarding his money.
    • Of course you should be vigilant with your finances and budget carefully but hoarding money is not the answer.
    • To what purposes can the managements of our publicly traded corporations be hoarding money?
    • But the way I see it is that I might not make it to 60, and if I don't I wouldn't want to be hoarding money, instead of enjoying myself.
    • As silver rose in value it was hoarded, both by private individuals and by government offices.
    • She is not a type of person who hoards her money in the bank for her own sake.
    • Pieces that could fetch higher prices would more likely be hoarded to compensate the added cost of being caught.
    • But how many paid any attention when companies started hoarding money on insecure infrastructures?
    • Neither do they tend to be hoarded by pensioners and drug dealers in the way bank notes are.
    • We are working with schools to make sure balances are used - so they are not just hoarding money.
    • Museum information has a history of being hoarded if not outright hidden in curatorial files.
    • It works similar to a 401, which lets you hoard money before taxes for the future.
    • When people and businesses hoard their money, growth slows.
    • Potential must be realized, energy must be utilized, wealth must not be hoarded.
    • This is even truer where wealth is hoarded at the top, as is typical of these Gulf states.
    • Those on the receiving end have hoarded their money and nurtured their resentment.
    • No team is hoarding money for Fortson, so his only hope of getting a decent check is for a sign-and-made deal.
    Synonyms
    store, store up, stock up on, stockpile, put aside, put by, put away, lay by, lay in, lay up, set aside, stow away, buy up, cache, amass, heap up, pile up, stack up
    collect, save, gather, garner, accumulate, husband, squirrel away, put to one side, put away for a rainy day
    informal stash away, salt away
    1. 1.1 Keep in one's mind for future use.
      he hoarded the memory in his heart

Usage

The words hoard and horde have some similarities in meaning and are pronounced the same, so it is unsurprising that they are sometimes confused. A hoard is ‘a secret stock or store of something’, as in a hoard of treasure, while a horde is a disparaging word for ‘a large group of people’, as in hordes of fans descended on the stage. Instances of hoard being used instead of horde are not uncommon: around a quarter of citations for hoard in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect use

Origin

Old English hord (noun), hordian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Hort (noun), horten (verb).

  • horde from Old English:

    A horde was originally a tribe or troop of nomads, such as the Tartars led by Genghis Khan, who migrated from place to place in search of new pasture or plunder. The word comes from Polish horda, which is itself from Turkish ordu ‘royal camp’, from which the language name Urdu (late 18th century) also derives. The word is often confused with hoard (Old English) a Germanic word for ‘a secret stock or store’.

Rhymes

aboard, abroad, accord, afford, applaud, award, bawd, board, broad, chord, Claude, cord, ford, fraud, gaud, Gawd, horde, laud, lord, maraud, milord, sward, sword, toward, unawed, unexplored, unrestored, ward
 
 

Definition of hoard in US English:

hoard

nounhɔrdhôrd
  • 1A stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded.

    he came back to rescue his little hoard of gold
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While digging for roots he finds a hoard of gold, which has now no value for him.
    • Luckily for investors, Gateway has a huge hoard of cash, and can continue to lose money for a few years without going bankrupt.
    • Hutchison has said it has a cash hoard of nearly $13 billion.
    • The Boeing jumbo was insured for $1.75 billion, and the company has a cash hoard of more than $1 billion.
    • The burglars escaped with a hoard of limited edition bone china, porcelain and pottery collectables leaving behind only muddy footprints.
    • A police raid on a one-bedroom flat turned up a hoard of nearly 2,000 weapons, including guns and ammunition.
    • The squad put in some fantastic swims, collecting a hoard of medals in the process.
    • A treasure hoard has already landed in Singapore, and more money is on its way.
    • In one endless makeup bag there contained her secret stash, a hoard of makeup, creams, colors and bottles smelling of lavender and rose.
    • Against the best the country could offer the Carlow participants excelled, bringing back a hoard of medals in several disciplines.
    • ‘It is imperative that you stockpile a large hoard of munchable treats,’ she says.
    • A York gardener was caught red-handed with a hoard of stolen statues, gnomes and ornaments, magistrates heard.
    • His final explanation for the hoard was that the money came from his wages as a mechanic and panel beater.
    • Many apparently converted their money hoards or business activities to dollars.
    • At one time there were over 3,000 statues at the site, and an inestimable hoard of gold and jewellery.
    • Part of a hoard of family silver which vanished for more than 100 years was yesterday sold at auction for nearly £8,000.
    • Good memories, mostly, and a hoard of treasures for the inner eye.
    • His characters stay in a hotel annexed to the British Museum, so they're absorbed into its hoard of pillaged imperial trophies.
    Synonyms
    cache, stockpile, stock, store, collection, supply, reserve, reservoir, fund, accumulation, heap, pile, mass, aggregation, conglomeration, treasure house, treasure trove
    1. 1.1 An ancient store of coins or other valuable artifacts.
      a hoard of Romano-British bronzes
      Example sentencesExamples
      • An important hoard of gold torcs, bronze bracelets and amber beads was found at Dooyork, Co. Mayo, in November 2001.
      • Minted AD 615-30, this is by far the oldest coin in the hoard.
      • Fortunately, experts have managed to salvage a number of priceless relics, including a huge hoard of Ancient Greek gold in Kerch.
      • The talks ranged from the ‘History of the Rabbit’ to the discovery of the Silsden hoard of silver coins.
      • Coin hoards have been found in Wales dating to the 9th, 10th, and 11th cents., but the coins were foreign, mainly English, Viking, or Arabic.
      • The high quality of the pottery, along with hoards of gold and silver found at Indus Valley sites, suggest great accumulation of wealth.
      • Sober estimates of the numbers of coins in the Wanborough hoard, mostly of Iron Age gold and silver, start at over 9,000.
      • He said: ‘Almost certainly, this was a group of coins buried as a hoard.’
      • One of the most famous hoards of Roman coins is the Arras hoard.
      • High-class Roman artefacts and coin hoards north of the frontier have been interpreted as such diplomatic gifts or subsidies, but they are few in number.
      • All day he had been devotedly guarding the naive angel, like an ancient dragon watching over a secret hoard of jewels and golden trinkets.
      • Coin hoards are a notable feature of the period, again perhaps indicating instability.
      • Mike begins listening to long forgotten audiotapes of a therapy session, while Hank discovers a hoard of old-time coins and treasures buried in the wall.
      • The previously illegible texts are among a hoard of papyrus manuscripts.
      • Last season finds included a hoard of four late bronze age socketed axes and the new art.
      • At least the frugal Germans and their coin hoards will bring some joy to archaeologists in the fourth millennium.
      • A slave had come to the entrance of the dragon's lair, saw a hoard of treasure and gold, and fled with a jewel-studded golden cup.
      • This medallion was part of a hoard found in an ancient shipwreck outside the coast of Corsica early in the 1970s.
      • Dating back 2,000 years, they are one of the first examples of Iron Age coin hoards to be seen in Britain.
      • I also just remembered a dream where, in part of it, we uncovered this hoard of old coins, like it was a pirate treasure or something.
    2. 1.2 An amassed store of useful information or facts, retained for future use.
      a hoard of secret information about his work
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If we mined the other inquisition records for further nuggets, we might amass a useful hoard of such information.
      • Even so, he wrote no books and produced only a few papers and lectures, though he amassed an enormous hoard of notes.
verbhɔrdhôrd
[with object]
  • 1Amass (money or valued objects) and hide or store away.

    thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector
    many of the boat people had hoarded rations
    Example sentencesExamples
    • No team is hoarding money for Fortson, so his only hope of getting a decent check is for a sign-and-made deal.
    • It works similar to a 401, which lets you hoard money before taxes for the future.
    • Of course you should be vigilant with your finances and budget carefully but hoarding money is not the answer.
    • He's spent the past two years hoarding money and watching everything that moves in Europe's utility sector.
    • Those on the receiving end have hoarded their money and nurtured their resentment.
    • When people and businesses hoard their money, growth slows.
    • To what purposes can the managements of our publicly traded corporations be hoarding money?
    • But how many paid any attention when companies started hoarding money on insecure infrastructures?
    • Neither do they tend to be hoarded by pensioners and drug dealers in the way bank notes are.
    • Pieces that could fetch higher prices would more likely be hoarded to compensate the added cost of being caught.
    • Potential must be realized, energy must be utilized, wealth must not be hoarded.
    • When Roderigo discovers that Iago has been hoarding his money he screams at Iago and threatens him.
    • But he grew up poor, and had something with hoarding his money.
    • She is not a type of person who hoards her money in the bank for her own sake.
    • But the way I see it is that I might not make it to 60, and if I don't I wouldn't want to be hoarding money, instead of enjoying myself.
    • Hence, gold began to replace silver in circulation, causing the latter to be hoarded or exported.
    • As silver rose in value it was hoarded, both by private individuals and by government offices.
    • This is even truer where wealth is hoarded at the top, as is typical of these Gulf states.
    • We are working with schools to make sure balances are used - so they are not just hoarding money.
    • Museum information has a history of being hoarded if not outright hidden in curatorial files.
    Synonyms
    store, store up, stock up on, stockpile, put aside, put by, put away, lay by, lay in, lay up, set aside, stow away, buy up, cache, amass, heap up, pile up, stack up
    1. 1.1 Reserve in the mind for future use.
      he hoarded the memory in his heart

Usage

The words hoard and horde have some similarities in meaning and are pronounced the same, so it is unsurprising that they are sometimes confused. A hoard is ‘a secret stock or store of something,’ as in a hoard of treasure, while a horde is a disparaging word for ‘a large group of people,’ as in hordes of fans descended on the stage. Instances of hoard being used instead of horde are not uncommon: around a quarter of citations for hoard in the Oxford English Corpus are for the incorrect use

Origin

Old English hord (noun), hordian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to German Hort (noun), horten (verb).

 
 
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