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treasure chest

treasure chest noun: a chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.

Noun

treasure chest (plural treasure chests)

  1. A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
  2. (metonymically) A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.
    • They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]1892, Joseph Jacobs, “Notes on the Jews of England under the Angevin Kings”, in The Jewish Quarterly Review, volume 4, page 634
    • The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest.1977, Richard Hyatt, The Carters of Plains, page 103
  3. (figuratively) Any source of something valuable or beautiful.
    • a treasure chest of poems

Synonyms of treasure chest

Forms of treasure chest

pluraltreasure chests

Questions about treasure chest

What does treasure chest mean?
Treasure chest means a chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
What part of speech is treasure chest?
Treasure chest is a noun.
What is the plural of treasure chest?
The plural of treasure chest is treasure chests.

Words near treasure chest in the dictionary

  1. treasrs.
  2. Treaster
  3. Treasters
  4. treasurable
  5. treasure
  6. treasure chest
  7. treasure chests
  8. treasure cities
  9. treasure city
  10. Treasure Coast
  11. Treasure County

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