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treasure chests

treasure chests is the plural of treasure chest.

Meaning of treasure chest

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
  3. (figuratively) Any source of something valuable or beautiful.
    • a treasure chest of poems

Questions about treasure chests

What is treasure chests the plural of?
Treasure chests is the plural of treasure chest.

Words near treasure chests in the dictionary

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

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