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word-hoard

word-hoard is the alternative spelling of wordhoard.

Meaning of wordhoard

Noun

wordhoard (plural wordhoards)

  1. Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
    • Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations.1930, Janet Rankin Aiken, “English the world over”, in The Bookman, London, page 67
  2. Thesaurus.

Forms of word-hoard

pluralword-hoards

Questions about word-hoard

What is word-hoard the alternative spelling of?
Word-hoard is the alternative spelling of wordhoard.

Words near word-hoard in the dictionary

  1. word-form
  2. word-formation
  3. word-formational
  4. word-formations
  5. word-forms
  6. word-hoard
  7. word-hoards
  8. word-initial
  9. word-list
  10. word-lists
  11. word-lover

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