hoarder
Syllables: hoard·erUK/ˈhɔːdə//ˈhɔɹdɚ/
hoarder noun: one who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.
Noun
hoarder (plural hoarders)
- One who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.
- A bill to demonetize existing French gold coinage has been introduced in the Chamber of Deputies by Deputies Lenoir, Bouffandeau, and Eymond. The purpose is to force hoarders to bring out gold estimated at 4,000,000,000 francs which is still kept in hiding in spite of patriotic appeals to the...1917 March 17, “Bill to Demonetize Gold”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- Like many lonely people, he was an inveterate hoarder, making and surrounding himself with objects, barriers against the demands of human intimacy.2017, Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone, New York: Picador, →ISBN, page 6
- Synonyms:
- pack rat
Synonyms of hoarder
Forms of hoarder
| plural | hoarders |
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Origin of hoarder
From Middle English horder, hordere (“a keeper of a store of goods”), from Old English hordere (“a treasurer, steward, chamberlain”), equivalent to hoard + -er.
Words formed from hoarder
Words that rhyme with hoarder
- order
- boarder
- border
- disorder
- recorder
- warder
- forder
- global order
- major depressive disorder
- nature-deficit disorder
- payment order
- shortboarder
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Questions about hoarder
- What does hoarder mean?
- Hoarder means one who hoards; one who accumulates, collects, and stores, especially one who does so to excess.
- What part of speech is hoarder?
- Hoarder is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hoarder?
- Hoarder is pronounced /ˈhɔɹdɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of hoarder?
- The plural of hoarder is hoarders.
Words near hoarder in the dictionary
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