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hoard
I. \ˈhō(ə)rd, ˈhȯ(ə)rd, ˈhōəd, ˈhȯ(ə)d\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English hord, from Old English; akin to Old High German hort treasure, Old Norse hodd, Gothic huzd treasure, Greek kysthos vulva, Old English hȳdan to hide — more at hide
1. : a collection or accumulation or amassment of something usually of special value or utility that is put aside for preservation of safekeeping or future use often in a greedy or miserly or otherwise unreasonable manner and that is often kept hidden or as if hidden : a supply or stock or fund of something that is stored up and closely and often jealously guarded
< a hoard of money >
< a hoard of provisions >
< a hoard of facts >
often : treasure
< dug up a hoard of gold and jewels >
< a hoard of old coins >
2. obsolete : the place where a hoard is kept : repository; specifically obsolete : treasury
II. verb
(-ed/-ing/-s)
Etymology: Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from hord, n.
transitive verb
1. : to collect or accumulate or amass into a hoard : lay up a hoard of
< hoard ing their money and refusing to make even reasonable expenditures >
2. : to keep (as a desire) hidden and in reserve and allow to develop or become strengthened
< she hoarded her intention — Virginia Woolf >
< the people outside disperse their affections, you hoard yours, you nurse them into intensity — Joseph Conrad >
intransitive verb
: to lay up a hoard; especially : to practice hoarding
Synonyms: see accumulate
III. noun
(-s)
Etymology: alteration of earlier hourd, probably from French dialect, scaffold, scaffolding, from Old French hourt scaffold, scaffolding, platform, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German hurd hurdle — more at hurdle
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