hoard

See also: Hoard

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔɹd/
• IPA^(key): /hɔːd/
• IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹd/
• IPA^(key): /hoəd/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: horde, whored

Etymology 1

From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kusdʰo-. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin custos (“guard; keeper”).

Noun

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hidden supply or fund.

   a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

Translations

hidden supply

• Bulgarian: запас (bg) m (zapas), съкровище (bg) n (sǎkrovište)
• Danish: forråd n (food), skat (da) (valuables)
• Finnish: kätkö (fi)
• French: magot (fr)
• German: Hort (de) m, Vorrat (de) m
• Greek: θησαυρός (el) m (thisavrós), απόθεμα (el) n (apóthema)
• Hungarian: kincs (hu)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: scorta (it) f, gruzzolo (it) m
• Maori: whakaputunga
• Middle English: hord
• Old English: hord n
• Russian: запа́с (ru) m (zapás)
• Spanish: acaparamiento (es) m, tesoro (es) m, guardado (es) m, bien oculto m
• Tagalog: dinaha

archeology: cache of valuable objects

• Czech: depot m
• Danish: skattefund n, skat (da) c, depotfund n (not associated with burials)
• Finnish: aarre (fi)
• French: trésor (fr)
• Greek: θησαυρός (el) m (thisavrós)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Italian: scoperta (it) f, rinvenimento m, tesoro (it) m
• Kalmyk: зөөр (zöör)
• Portuguese: tesouro (pt) m
• Spanish: tesoro (es) m (arqueológico)

Verb

hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)

1. To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

Synonyms

• engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

Antonyms

• declutter

Translations

to amass

• Bulgarian: събирам (bg) (sǎbiram), трупам (bg) (trupam)
• Catalan: acaparar (ca), abassegar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 囤积 (zh) (túnjī)

• Danish: samle (da), hamstre, puge
• Dutch: opstapelen (nl)
• Finnish: kahmia (fi), kahmaista, hamstrata (fi), rohmuta (fi), ahnehtia (fi)
• French: accumuler (fr), amasser (fr), thésauriser (fr)
• German: horten (de)
• Greek: αποθησαυρίζω (el) (apothisavrízo), συσσωρεύω (el) (syssorévo)
• Ido: trezorifar (io), amasigar (io), amaseskar (sekrete) (io), akumular (io)
• Italian: accumulare (it), tesaurizzare (it), collezionare (it)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Latin: accumulō, compercō
• Maori: makitaunu, whakapūranga
• Norwegian: hamstre (no)
• Polish: gromadzić (pl)
• Portuguese: acumular (pt)
• Russian: запаса́ть (ru) impf (zapasátʹ), запасти́ (ru) pf (zapastí), копить (ru) impf (kopitʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: taisg
• Spanish: acaparar (es), amasar (es), atesorar (es) m
• Tagalog: magdaha

Related terms

• hoarder
• hoardy

Etymology 2

See hoarding.

Noun

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
2. A hoarding (billboard).

Etymology 3

Noun

hoard

1. Misspelling of horde.

See also

• Hoarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hoard (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• horde

Anagrams

• Rhoda, hadro-