hoard

hoard

See also: Hoard

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɔːd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: horde, whored

Etymology 1

From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”.[1] Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”).

Noun

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hidden supply or fund.

   a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

Derived terms

• goldhoard

Translations

hidden supply

Bulgarian: запас (bg) m (zapas), съкровище (bg) n (sǎkrovište) Danish: forråd n (food), skat (da) (valuables) Finnish: kätkö (fi) French: magot (fr) German: Hort (de) m, Vorrat (de) m Greek: θησαυρός (el) m (thisavrós), απόθεμα (el) n (apóthema) Hungarian: kincs (hu), rejtett/titkos felhalmozott készlet Italian: scorta (it) f, gruzzolo (it) m Maori: whakaputunga Middle English: hord Old English: hord n Russian: запа́с (ru) m (zapás) Spanish: acaparamiento (es) m, tesoro (es) m, guardado (es) m Tagalog: dinaha

archeology: cache of valuable objects

Czech: depot m Danish: skattefund n, skat (da) c, depotfund n (not associated with burials) Finnish: aarre (fi), aarrekätkö French: trésor (fr) Galician: tesouro m Greek: θησαυρός (el) m (thisavrós) Italian: scoperta (it) f, rinvenimento m, tesoro (it) m Kalmyk: зөөр (zöör) Portuguese: tesouro (pt) m Spanish: tesoro (es) m (arqueológico)

Verb

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

1. To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

Synonyms

• engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

Antonyms

• declutter

Derived terms

• hoarder

Translations

to amass

Bulgarian: събирам (bg) (sǎbiram), трупам (bg) (trupam) Catalan: acaparar (ca), abassegar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 囤積／囤积 (zh) (túnjī) Danish: samle (da), hamstre (goods or food), puge(money) Dutch: ophopen (nl), verzamelen (nl), hamsteren (nl), oppotten (nl) Esperanto: akumuli, kolekti, hamstri Finnish: kerätä (fi), kerryttää (fi) (neutral); hamstrata (fi), kahmia (fi), rohmuta (fi), ahnehtia (fi) (with negative connotation), haalia (fi), kasata (fi), koota (fi), varastoida (fi) French: accumuler (fr), amasser (fr), thésauriser (fr) German: horten (de) Greek: αποθησαυρίζω (el) (apothisavrízo), συσσωρεύω (el) (syssorévo) Hungarian: felhalmoz (hu), betáraz, bespájzol, gyűjt (hu), gyűjtöget, készletez, összehord (hu), összegyűjt (hu) Ido: trezorifar (io), amasigar (io), amaseskar (sekrete) (io), akumular (io) Italian: accumulare (it), tesaurizzare (it), collezionare (it) Latin: accumulō, compercō Maori: makitaunu, whakapūranga Norwegian: hamstre (no) Polish: gromadzić (pl) Portuguese: acumular (pt) Russian: запаса́ть (ru) impf (zapasátʹ), запасти́ (ru) pf (zapastí), копить (ru) impf (kopitʹ) Scottish Gaelic: taisg Spanish: acaparar (es), amasar (es), atesorar (es) m Tagalog: magdaha Vietnamese: tích trữ (vi), trữ (vi)

Related terms

• hoarder
• hoardy

References

1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*huzda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260

Etymology 2

See hoarding.

Noun

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.
   • 1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord:

     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 […]

3. A hoarding (billboard).

Noun

hoard

1. Misspelling of horde.

See also

• Hoarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hoard (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• horde

Anagrams

• Rhoad, Rhoda, hadro-