word-hoard
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of word-hoard
First recorded in 1890–95; literal modern rendering of Old English wordhord
Example Sentences
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And then, around Page 15, the wheels bust off this narrative, and we’re airborne: “Grown Boy came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
From Washington Post
It’s the story of how, Ferlinghetti writes in the book, he “came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
From New York Times
Next we find Little Boy became Grown Boy, who “came into his own voice and let loose his word-hoard pent up within him.”
From Los Angeles Times
“The Essex Serpent” is also an example of what the nature writer Robert Macfarlane calls “a word-hoard of the astonishing lexis for landscape.”
From New York Times
“I intend to rally my memory and write in these pages you provide a small word-hoard of my own,” Cockcroft wrote.
From The New Yorker
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