hoarding
/ˈhɔːdɪŋ/
hoarding noun: a roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them. Also the present participle and gerund of hoard.
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Noun (1)
hoarding (plural hoardings)
- A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
- A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
- Making inquiries she came to a hoarding, within which were excavations denoting the foundations of a building; and on the boards without one or two large posters announcing that the foundation-stone of the chapel about to be erected would be laid that afternoon at three o’clock by a London preacher...1894 December – 1895 November, Thomas Hardy, chapter VIII, in Jude the Obscure, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], published 1896, →OCLC
- A hoarding is a legal requirement for the safety of the public on a building site. There are rules about its height and construction. But of course it is also the perfect opportunity: a blank canvas on which to show a vision of the life soon to be lived behind it.2014 September 25, Hugo Macdonald, “Could those utopian hoardings for new developments get any more nauseating?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- A billboard.
- Nobody has ever seen Big Brother. He is a face on the hoardings, a voice on the telescreen. We may be reasonably sure that he will never die, and there is already considerable uncertainty as to when he was born.1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001
- Today, by radio, and also on giant hoardings, a rabbi, an admiral notorious for his links to Masonry, a trio of cardinals, a trio, too, of insignificant politicians (bought and paid for by a rich and corrupt Anglo-Canadian banking corporation), inform us all of how our country now risks dying of...1994, Georges Perec, translated by Gilbert Adair, A Void, London: Harvill Press, page vii
Noun (2)
hoarding (countable and uncountable, plural hoardings)
- The practice of accumulating goods.
- But that doesn’t solve harder questions about the hoarding of vaccines, raw materials and patent rights in the west, or the fact that Covax clearly isn’t working as fast as it should.2021 April 26, Gaby Hinsliff, “Vaccine hoarding is all the more disturbing as a Covid disaster unfolds in India”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- A good which is hoarded.
- An anxiety disorder characterized by a compulsive need to accumulate goods and feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding such goods.
- Hoarding can be distressing and dangerous. But it’s not just a matter of ‘too much stuff’ – it’s a complex condition that requires careful, targeted help[.]2023 July 4, Samira Shackle, “‘You reach a point where you can’t live your life’: what is behind extreme hoarding?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- compulsive hoarding, hoarding disorder
Also used as
hoarding is also the present participle and gerund of hoard.
hoarding meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Punjabi
hoarding in Hindi
- जमाखोरी, जमाखोरी करना
hoarding in Tamil
- பதுக்கல், பதுக்கம்
hoarding in Urdu
- ذخیرہ اندوزی, ذخیرہ اندوزی کرنا
hoarding in Punjabi
- ਜਮ੍ਹਾਂਖੋਰੀ
More languagesFewer languages
- hoarding in Gujarati
- સંગ્રહખોરી, જમાખોરી
- hoarding in Nepali
- जमाखोरी
- hoarding in Arabic
- اِكْتِنَاز iktināz
Examples of hoarding in a sentence
- The west side is one massive building site, although it's hard to appreciate what's going on behind all the hoardings.2022 November 16, Paul Bigland, “From rural branches to high-speed arteries”, in RAIL, number 970, page 57:
- The car, pictured on a giant hoarding, has launched the latest row over intrusive advertising in Italy's historic towns and cities.2004 June 25, John Hooper, “Uproar in Italy over hoardings in historic vistas”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
Synonyms of hoarding
Antonyms
Forms of hoarding
| plural | hoardings |
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Origin of hoarding
From hoard (“structure”) + -ing.
From hoard + -ing.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Words formed from hoarding
Phrases with hoarding
Words that rhyme with hoarding
Questions about hoarding
- What does hoarding mean?
- Hoarding means a roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
- What is hoarding in Hindi?
- Hoarding in Hindi is जमाखोरी, जमाखोरी करना. See Hoarding meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use hoarding in a sentence?
- The west side is one massive building site, although it's hard to appreciate what's going on behind all the hoardings.
- What part of speech is hoarding?
- Hoarding is a noun.
- How do you pronounce hoarding?
- Hoarding is pronounced /ˈhɔːdɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of hoarding?
- The plural of hoarding is hoardings.
Words near hoarding in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoarding (page history and authors); hoarding (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hoarding (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hoarding (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hoarding (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hoarding (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hoarding (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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