trove
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of trove
First recorded in 1885–90; short for treasure-trove
Explanation
A trove is a valuable collection of something. You might discover a trove of old comic books in the basement of your uncle's house, or a trove of candy bars at the back of a kitchen cabinet. If you found a treasure chest full of gold doubloons buried in your back yard, you could absolutely call that a trove — but you can also use trove for any wonderful or precious stash of stuff. Archaeologists might uncover a trove of fossils, and Easter egg hunters are hoping to discover a trove of eggs and candy. Trove was first used in the phrase treasure trove, from the Anglo-French tresor trové, rooted in the Old French trover, "to find."
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Example Sentences
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That collection has grown in the subsequent decades into a treasure trove of neatly stacked programmes, tickets, scarves, signed photographs and ornaments spanning multiple rooms in his house in Stevenage.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
“Our content varies dramatically from customer to customer, but we have just a really rich treasure trove of technology we can offer our customers here.”
From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026
Companies rely on a massive trove of data to train and maintain AI systems, increasing the demand for data centers that house computing equipment.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026
For a growing number of online sleuths, there is a booming business in peddling outlandish answers to those and other sordid questions raised by the trove of newly released files.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 7, 2026
This paper takes advantage of a new trove of government data that helps reliably address the black-white gap.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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