hoard
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Pronunciation edit
- (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/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
- Homophones: horde, whored
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)
- A hidden supply or fund.
- a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
- (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
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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)
- 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; […]
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- engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass
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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)
- A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
- A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.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 […]
- A hoarding (billboard).
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hoard
- Misspelling of horde.
See also edit
- Hoarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- hoard (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- horde