hoard
UK/hɔːd//hɔɹd/
hoard noun: a hidden supply or fund. Also the misspelling of horde.
Noun (1)
hoard (plural hoards)
Verb
hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)
- To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
- The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
And yet perhaps the hoarding sense
Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
A little flash, a mystic hint; […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XLIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 66 - Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow
- The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
- To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.
Noun (2)
hoard (plural hoards)
- A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
- A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
- Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards[…]1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord
- A hoarding (billboard).
Proper noun capitalized: Hoard
Hoard (plural Hoards)
- A surname.
Also used as
hoard is also the misspelling of horde.
hoard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Tagalog and Thai
hoard in Hindi
- hidden supply
- निधि nidhi
hoard in Tamil
- to amass
- பதுக்கு patukku
hoard in Tagalog
- hidden supply
- dinaha
- to amass
- magdaha
hoard in Thai
- to amass
- กักตุน
More languagesFewer languages
- hoard in Vietnamese
- tích trữ, trữ
Examples of hoard in a sentence
- The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin, numbers 593-604, page 198:
- When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.1914, Margaret Bird Steinmetz, Leaves of Life:
Synonyms of hoard
Antonyms
Forms of hoard
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hoards |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | hoards |
| present participle | hoarding |
| past participle | hoarded |
| past | hoarded |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hoards |
Origin of hoard
From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development, compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).
From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.
From Middle English hord, whorde, from Anglo-Norman hurde and Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”), from Middle Dutch horde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi (“wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”).
Words formed from hoard
Words that rhyme with hoard
40 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- umbilical cord
- afford
- ord
- reward
- sward
- toward
- untoward
- -lord
- abhorred
- bored
- destination board
- disaccord
- greatsword
- horde
- onboard
- smorgasbord
- unoared
- adored
- bell chord
- beward
- chored
- concord
- deboard
- discord
- fjord
- gord
- gored
- guide board
- hoared
- ignored
- m'lord
- milord
- moored
- oared
- of one's own accord
- outward
- restored
- secured
- sord
- whored
Questions about hoard
- What does hoard mean?
- Hoard means a hidden supply or fund.
- What is hoard in Hindi?
- Hoard in Hindi is निधि (nidhi). See Hoard meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hoard in a sentence?
- The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.
- What part of speech is hoard?
- Hoard can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce hoard?
- Hoard is pronounced /hɔɹd/ (US).
- What is the plural of hoard?
- The plural of hoard is hoards.
Words near hoard in the dictionary
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