hoard
a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.: a vast hoard of silver.
to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place: to hoard food during a shortage.
to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.
Origin of hoard
1Other words for hoard
Other words from hoard
- hoarder, noun
- un·hoard·ed, adjective
Words that may be confused with hoard
- hoard , horde
Words Nearby hoard
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How to use hoard in a sentence
We cannot be confident that Amazon will treat this new data any better than it has treated its existing data hoard.
In the 1940s, geographer and anthropologist George Carter amassed a hoard of Indigenous goods farmed in the Southwest, which he later donated to the University of California, Berkeley.
Indigenous farmers are ‘rematriating’ centuries-old seeds to plant a movement | Kalen Goodluck | February 10, 2022 | Popular-ScienceIn addition to pure speed, RSC will give Meta the ability to train algorithms on its massive hoard of user data.
Meta Is Making a Monster AI Supercomputer for the Metaverse | Jason Dorrier | January 26, 2022 | Singularity HubScientists are excited to mine this data hoard to further refine the universe’s origin story.
How Will the Universe End? Scientists Seek an Answer in the Biggest Galaxy Map Yet | Jason Dorrier | January 16, 2022 | Singularity HubSlowly, they removed soil, pebbles, and fist-sized stones a fraction of an inch at a time, revealing the outline of the hoard.
How Scotland forged a rare alliance between amateur treasure hunters and archaeologists | Corinne Iozzio | August 24, 2021 | Popular-Science
That I hoard medication and go to sleep each night on a big pile of Zithromax?
Doctors Can’t Prescribe a Magical Cure for Everything | Russell Saunders | March 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTJML: Attractive celebrities are usually followed by a hoard of women.
Murder, Sex, and the Writing Life: Norman Mailer’s Biography | Ronald K. Fried | November 19, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd by the end of the war he had managed to hoard at least 1,400 hugely valuable works for himself.
The Man Who Hoarded Art for the Nazis | Christopher Dickey, Nadette De Visser | November 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTApple, “a pioneer in tactics to avoid taxes,” has kept much of its cash hoard abroad, out of reach of Uncle Sam.
America’s New Oligarchs—Fwd.us and Silicon Valley’s Shady 1 Percenters | Joel Kotkin | May 14, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen would you rather hoard money instead of lending it out?
That hoard up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and there is no end of their getting?
The Bible, Douay-Rheims Version | VariousIf I take no money for the money that I lend, how shall I then increase my hoard?
German Culture Past and Present | Ernest Belfort BaxThey are no wiser than the savages, who hide and hoard their little heaps of cowrie-shells.
American Sketches | Charles WhibleyWhat you enjoy is yours; what for your heirs / 45 You hoard, already is not yours, but theirs.
Gunnar refuses Atli's command to reveal the hiding-place of the hoard, bidding them bring to him the heart of Hogni.
The Nibelungenlied | Unknown
British Dictionary definitions for hoard
/ (hɔːd) /
an accumulated store hidden away for future use
a cache of ancient coins, treasure, etc
to gather or accumulate (a hoard)
Origin of hoard
1usage For hoard
Derived forms of hoard
- hoarder, noun
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