hoard

Speech parts

1. hoard - Noun

2. hoard - Verb

3. Hoard - Proper noun

Meaning

See Hoarding, 2.

A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.

To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.

To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

rick treasury bank repertory garner keep reserve depository horde cumulation supply collection stock store husband
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Antonyms

chuck ware slough sac can use
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Hypernyms

stock store save fund put in lay in

Hyponyms

bale corral catch collect fund scratch

Phrases with the word

hoard up

Derivatives

hoarded hoarding

Anagrams

hardo Rhoad Rhoda

Examples

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits. Wallace Stevens

Do you know what they call people who hoard books? Smart. Lisa Scottoline

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing. Isaac Barrow

Maybe the life I think I'm living is a paranoid delusion... Sanity is a valuable possession; I hoard it the way people once hoarded money. I save it, so I will have enough, when the time comes. Margaret Atwood

Keep adding little by little and you will soon have a big hoard. Latin Proverb

You should not hoard your money and die of hunger. African Proverb

Close letter words and terms

Hoar Cross hoar frost Hoarau hoard up hoarded wealth hoarder