treasure chest

English

Noun

treasure chest (plural treasure chests)

1. A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
2. (metonymically) A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.
   • 1892, Joseph Jacobs, “Notes on the Jews of England under the Angevin Kings”, in The Jewish Quarterly Review, volume 4, page 634:

     They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]

   • 1977, Richard Hyatt, The Carters of Plains, page 103:

     The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest.

   • 2006, D. M. Metcalf, “Inflows of Anglo-Saxon and German coins into the Northern lands c. 997–1024: discerning the patterns”, in Barrie Cook, Gareth Williams, editors, Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500–1250, →ISBN, page 364:

     When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide.

3. (figurative) Any source of something valuable or beautiful.

   Synonym: gold mine

   a treasure chest of poems

Translations

chest filled with treasure

• Afrikaans: skatkis (af)
• Catalan: cofre de tresor m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 百寶箱／百宝箱 (bǎibǎoxiāng), 財寶箱／财宝箱 (cáibǎoxiāng)

• Danish: skattekiste c
• Dutch: schatkist (nl) f
• Esperanto: trezorkofro
• Finnish: aarrearkku (fi)
• French: coffre au trésor m
• German: Schatzkiste (de) f
• Hungarian: kincsesláda (hu)
• Irish: maoinchiste m
• Italian: cofano di tesoro m
• Japanese: 宝箱 (ja) (takarabako)
• Latin: arca thēsaurī f
• Portuguese: baú de tesoro m, cofre de tesoro m
• Russian: сунду́к сокро́вищ m (sundúk sokróvišč)
• Spanish: cofre del tesoro m
• Swedish: skattkista (sv) c
• Turkish: hazine sandığı

royal treasury

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寶庫／宝库 (zh) (bǎokù)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: schatkist (nl) f
• Finnish: aarrekirstu
• French: please add this translation if you can
• German: Schatztruhe (de)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Irish: maoinchiste m
• Russian: сокро́вищница (ru) f (sokróviščnica)
• Spanish: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: skattkista (sv) c
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

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• Thai: ^{(please verify)} หีบสมบัติ (heep sŏm-bàt)