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hoord

hoord is the obsolete form of hoard.

Meaning of hoard

Verb

hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)

  1. (transitive) 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
  2. (transitive) To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.

See all 8 meanings of hoard

Forms of hoord

third-person singular presenthoords
present participlehoording
past participlehoorded
pasthoorded

Questions about hoord

What is hoord the obsolete form of?
Hoord is the obsolete form of hoard.

Words near hoord in the dictionary

  1. Hooray Henrys
  2. hoorayed
  3. hooraying
  4. hoorays
  5. hoorays for Hollywood
  6. hoord
  7. hoorded
  8. hoording
  9. hoords
  10. Hoorn
  11. hooroo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hoord (page history and authors); hoard (page history and authors). 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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