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”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).

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
• hoard-bug
• hoard-house
• hoard-ward
• word-hoard

 

Translations

hidden supply

• Bulgarian: запас (bg) m (zapas), съкровище (bg) n (sǎkrovište)
• Catalan: reserva f
• Czech: zásoba (cs) f, hromada (cs) f
• 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)
• Hindi: निधि (hi) (nidhi)
• Hungarian: kincs (hu), rejtett/titkos felhalmozott készlet
• Italian: scorta (it) f, gruzzolo (it) m
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: veşartin (ku) f

• 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

• Catalan: tresor (ca) m
• Czech: depot m
• Danish: skattefund n, skat (da) c, depotfund n (not associated with burials)
• Finnish: aarre (fi), aarrekätkö
• French: trésor (fr)
• Galician: tesouro (gl) m
• Greek: θησαυρός (el) m (thisavrós)
• Italian: scoperta (it) f, rinvenimento (it) m, tesoro (it) m
• Kalmyk: зөөр (zöör)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: xezîne (ku) f

• Portuguese: tesouro (pt) m
• Spanish: tesoro (es) m (arqueológico)

Etymology 2

From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.

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.
   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIII, page 66:

     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; […]

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

Synonyms

• engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

Antonyms

• declutter

Derived terms

• hoarder
• hoard out

Related terms

• hoarder
• hoardy

Translations

to amass

• Bulgarian: събирам (bg) (sǎbiram), трупам (bg) (trupam)
• Catalan: acaparar (ca), abassegar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 囤積／囤积 (zh) (túnjī), 貯藏ちょぞう／贮藏 (zh) (zhùcáng)

• Czech: hromadit (cs) impf, nahromadit pf, schovávat si impf, shromáždit pf, nashromáždit pf, dělat si zásoby impf, nadělat si zásoby pf, křečkovat impf
• 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 (hu), gyűjt (hu), gyűjtöget (hu), készletez (hu), összehord (hu), összegyűjt (hu)
• Ido: trezorifar (io), amasigar (io), amaseskar (sekrete) (io), akumular (io)
• Italian: accumulare (it), tesaurizzare (it), collezionare (it)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: kom kirin (ku), civandin (ku), berhev kirin (ku)

• Lao: ກັກຕຸນ (kak tun)
• 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
• Thai: กักตุน (th)
• Vietnamese: tích trữ (vi), trữ (vi)

Etymology 3

From Middle English hord, whorde, from Anglo-Norman hurde and Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”), from Middle Dutch horde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi (“wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”).

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).

Derived terms

• hoard house

Etymology 4

Noun

hoard

1. Misspelling of horde.

See also

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

Anagrams

• Rhoad, Rhoda, hadro-