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hoards

hoards is the plural of hoard.

hoards is the third-person singular simple present indicative of hoard.

Meaning of hoard

Noun (1)

hoard (plural hoards)

  1. A hidden supply or fund.
    • a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
  2. A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

Noun (2)

hoard (plural hoards)

  1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
  2. A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.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
  3. A hoarding (billboard).

See all 8 meanings of hoard

Proper noun capitalized: Hoards

Hoards

  1. (plural) plural of Hoard

Phrases with hoards

Questions about hoards

What is hoards the plural of?
Hoards is the plural of hoard.
What part of speech is hoards?
Hoards is a proper noun.

Words near hoards in the dictionary

  1. hoarding disorder
  2. hoarding disorders
  3. hoarding out
  4. hoardingly
  5. hoardings
  6. hoards
  7. hoards out
  8. hoardsome
  9. hoardy
  10. Hoare
  11. Hoare logic

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