See also: Hoard

English edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

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 edit

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 edit
Translations edit

Etymology 2 edit

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

Verb edit

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 edit
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Translations edit

References edit

  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 3 edit

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 edit

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 A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.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 edit

Etymology 4 edit

Noun edit

hoard

  1. Misspelling of horde.

See also edit

Anagrams edit