Hoard

  

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Hoard

Definitions: Hoard

Hoard

Noun

1. A secret store of valuables or money.

Verb

1. Save up as for future use.

2. Get together.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "hoard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)


Synonyms: Hoard

Synonyms: accumulate (v), amass (v), cache (v), collect (v), compile (v), hive up (v), lay away (v), pile up (v), squirrel away (v), stash (v). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Hoard, Wisconsin

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Hoard is a town located in Clark County, Wisconsin. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 594.

Geography


According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 91.4 km² (35.3 mi²). 91.4 km² (35.3 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.

Demographics


As of the census of 2000, there are 594 people, 170 households, and 146 families residing in the town. The population density is 6.5/km² (16.8/mi²). There are 182 housing units at an average density of 2.0/km² (5.2/mi²). The racial makeup of the town is 97.64% White, 0.00% African American, 1.18% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.84% from other races, and 0.34% from two or more races. 1.35% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 170 households out of which 44.1% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 73.5% are married couples living together, 5.3% have a female householder with no husband present, and 14.1% are non-families. 10.6% of all households are made up of individuals and 5.3% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 3.49 and the average family size is 3.77. In the town the population is spread out with 38.4% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 26.3% from 25 to 44, 16.5% from 45 to 64, and 11.8% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 32 years. For every 100 females there are 103.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 117.9 males. The median income for a household in the town is $35,250, and the median income for a family is $37,639. Males have a median income of $24,545 versus $16,750 for females. The per capita income for the town is $12,273. 14.8% of the population and 15.2% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 16.3% are under the age of 18 and 23.0% are 65 or older.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hoard, Wisconsin."

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Synonyms within Context: Hoard

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Store

Verb: store; put by, lay by, set by; stow away; set apart, lay apart; store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up; bank; cache; accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save.

Store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay; (provision).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Hoard

English words defined with "hoard": HoardedIntreasureNibelungSigurd, Stock goldTo put upUnhoard, Uphoard, Uplay. (references)
Specialty definitions using "hoard": Hagan of TronyNibelungen HoardOveryyouth crew. (references)
Etymologies containing "hoard": IntreasureUphoard, Uplay. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Hoard

DomainTitle

Books

  • 1,001 Bright Ideas to Stretch Your Dollars: Pinch Your Pennies, Hoard Your Quarters, Collar Your Dollars (reference)

  • Dujonian's Hoard : The Captain's Table, Book 2 (Star Trek: The Next Generation) (reference)

  • Gallo-Roman Bronzes and the Process of Romanization: Cobannus Hoard (Monumenta Graeca Et Romana, 9) (reference)

  • Word Hoard (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: Hoard

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

Don't hoard medicines : ask your pharmacist you'll be taking good advice.Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Sounds Captioned with "Hoard".

PlayCaption
Ante; plastic; clink; pile; piling; accumulation; aggregate; aggregation; amassment; assemblage; bank; barrel; buildup; chunk; collection; conglomeration; gob; great deal; hill; hoard; hunk; jumble; lump; mass; mound; oodles; pack; peck; pyramid; quantity.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Hoard

AuthorQuotation

Lao-Tzu

The sage does not hoard. Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more; having given all he has to others, he is richer still.

Laurence Sterne

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: Hoard

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And indeed it was a foolish thing, as well as dishonest, to hoard up more than he could make use of. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Hoard

"Hoard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.47% of the time. "Hoard" is used about 187 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.47%18622,556
Noun (proper)0.53%1339,140
                    Total100.00%187N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Hoard

The following table summarizes the usage of "hoard" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
HoardLast name2,0006,398
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Hoard

Expressions using "hoard": hoard money hoard of money hoard up. Additional references.

Hypenated Usage

Ending with "hoard": scatter-hoard, treasure-hoard.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Hoard

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  hoard

21

  hoard stern

3

  hoard joel

3

  brown hoard mullin

2

  leroy hoard

2

  hoard hoi

2

  coin hoard roman wholesale

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Hoard

Language Translations for "hoard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

vë mënjanë (lay aside, lay by, lay off, move aside, put aside, put by, salt away, save, set apart, set aside, set by, set down), rrangulla (lumber), rezervë (backup, cartridge, deposit, distance, emergency, fountain, fund, garment, leeway, margin, munition, offishness, ordinary, pool, reservation, reserve, resource, spare, stand by, stock, stockpile, store, supply), krijoj rezerva (store), grumbulloj (accumulate, amalgamate, amass, assemble, clamp, collect, compile, conglomerate, cumulate, gather, get together, heap, mass, pile, pool, rally, stack, unite). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مؤونة, ‏ذخيرة (ammo, ammunition, dump, munitions, repertory, reserve, reservoir, store), ‏خزن (save, stock, store, stow), ‏دخر (enshrine, fund, garner, husband, lay by, lay up, put aside, put by, reserve, save, set, set apart, set aside, siphon, skimp, sock away, spare, stash, store). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

съкровище (gem, jewel, treasure), скрит запас, скривам (cache, conceal, dissemble, enshroud, hide, hold back, obscure, plant, put back, screen, secrete, sink, stash, sweep under the carpet, tuck away, veil), складирам (cache, dump, house, loft, store, warehouse), куп (accumulation, agglomeration, amassment, bunch, bundle, clamp, cluster, congeries, crop, crowd, cumulation, cumulus, heap, huddle, knot, lashings, lump, mass, mint, mound, mountain, pack, parcel, pile, raft, ruck, scad, shoal, sight, slathers, stack, tumble), запасявам се, запас (army reserve, arrearage, backlog, fund, reserve, reservoir, stock, store, supply), пазя (guard, invigilate, keep, mind, preserve, protect, screen, spare, treasure up, ward, watch, watch over), имане (having). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

" (bring together, collect), 囤積 , 囤积居奇 (Hoarded, hoarding), (bin for grain, to store). (various references)

   

Czech

  

zásoba (bank, fund, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply), poklad (love, treasure). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

گنج (Treasure, Treasury), ذخیره (Reservation, Reserve, Reservoir, Spare, Stock, Stockpile, Store), اندوخته (Nestegg, Reserve, Store), انباشتن (Accumulate, Agglomerate, Assemble, Bulk, Cumulate, Garner, Hill, Hoarding, Stack, Stash, Stow, Stuff), احتکارکردن (Engross, Speculate), احتکار (Hoarding). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

hamstrata, rohmuta, kerätä varastoon (stockpile), aarre (treasure). (various references)

   

French

  

provision, magot, faire des provisions. (various references)

   

German

  

vorrat (fund, priority, provision, repertoire, reserve, stand, stock, stockpile, store, supply), horten (hoarding, pile up, stockpile). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απόθεμα (backlog, fund, hold-up, reserve, stock). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מא'ר (catch basin, reservoir, stockpile), מצבור (dump, mass, pile), לא'ור (accumulate, amass, collect, gather, lay up, stash, stock up, store), לאצור (accumulate, collect, garner, store up, treasure). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

valóságos méhkas, készlet (backlog, kit, outfit, resource, resources, set, stock, suit, suite, supply), felhalmoz (accumulate, aggregate, amass, bulk, clump, cumulate, heap, heap up, lay up, mass, pile up, stack, to accumulate, to agglomerate, to aggregate, to ball, to clump, to engross, to heap, to heap up, to hive, to hoard, to hoard up, to lay up, to lumber, to pile on, to pile up, to treasure, to treasure up), összegyûjt (accumulate, amass, assemble, converge, hive, pile up, rally, round up). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

timbunan (accumulation, heap), menumpuki (accumulate, pile up on top of something). (various references)

   

Italian

  

accaparrare (abbroachement, bag, buy up, corner, forage, hamsters, to buy up, to corner). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

仕舞い込む (to hoard, to put away, to stow away, to tuck away). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

しまい"む (to hoard, to put away, to stow away, to tuck away). (various references)

   

Manx

  

tashtey (cache, deposit, dew, dump, fund; damp, keep, lay up, lodgement, put by, reserve price, save, saving; stockpile, stock up, store, stow; dumping, stowage, treasure), tasht (cache, dump, magazine, reserve, store), stoyrey (hoarding), stoyral (garner, hoarding, lay up, store, warehousing), stoyr (deposit, depot, fund, repertory, repository, still room, stock, store, storehouse, storeroom, supply), pruggal (hoarding), prug (possessions, store). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

hamstre, forråd. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oardhay

   

Portuguese

  

tesouro escondido, reserva (backlog, backup, booking, discretion, fallback, freehand, fund, preserve, privacy, proviso, qualification, refuge, reservation, reserve, reservoir, restriction, reticence, salvo, secrecy, static allocation, stealth, stockpile, store, wildlife reserve), provisões ocultas, encanecido. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

tezauriza (amass, treasure), tezaur (coffer, store, thesaurus, treasure, treasury), strânge (accrete, accumulate, acerbate, acquire, agglomerate, amass, assemble, bind, call, chuck, clamp, clasp, clear, clench, close, collect, compress, concentrate, congregate, constrain, constrict, contract, converge, convolve, cramp, crop, crouch, crowd, crush, cull, cut, diminish, double, fasten, fold, force, garner, gather, glean, harvest, haul, house, hug, jam, lay aside, lay by, lay in, lay up, levy, lock, lump, make up, mass, muster, nip, pack, pick, pick up, pile, pile on, pinch, press, put away, put by, rake together, rake up, rally, reap, screw, shrink, shut, squeeze, stifle, stock, store, straighten, strain, straiten, suffocate, take up, tighten, troop, warehouse), stoc (fund, reserve, stock, store, supply), rezervã (aloofness, budget, chill, condition, deposit, distance, exception, offishness, qualification, refill, reservation, reserve, restraint, retention, side-room, stand by, standoffishness, stipulation, stock, store, substitute, supply), provizie (eatables, ration, store, supply, victuals), pãstra cu grijã, monetar (currency, monetary), economii (saving, scraping), comoarã (duck, gem, knock out, love, mine, precious, riches, spoil, thesaurus, treasure, treasury, wealth), bani la ciorap, acumula (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, augment, garner, heap, pile, stockpile, store), îngrãmãdire (block, congeries, congestion, cram, squash). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

откладывать (adjourn, defer, deposit, hang up, hold over, lay aside, lay by, leave over, postpone, put aside, put away, put by, put off, put over, reserve, set apart, set aside, set by, shunt, store, suspend), запас (arrearage, fund, grist, margin, provision, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, store of, supply). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

taisg (deposit, lay up, store away). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

zaliha (backlog, provision, reserve, stock, stockpile, store, supply), riznica (repertory, treasure, treasure house, treasury), nagomilati (accumulate, aggregate, amass, collect, garner, heap, hill, lay up, pile, pile up, stock, stock up, stockpile). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

acaparar (buy up, forage, hamsters, hoard up, hog, monopolize, overstock, to buy up, to corner). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

hamstra (pile up), lägga på hög (amass), gömställe (cache, concealment, covert, hide, hideaway, hideout, hiding place, hiding-place), förråd (depot, fund, inventory, lockup, provision, stock, stockpile, store, storehouse, supplies, utility room). (various references)

   

Thai

  

แหล่งกักตุน. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

toplu haldeki mal, toplamak (accumulate, add, add together, add up, agglomerate, aggregate, amass, assemble, beat up, bring together, build, call in, cast up, clear away, club, collect, combine, compile, concentrate, congest, congregate, consolidate, convene, cull, fold down back, furl, gather, gather up, glean, hand-pick, harvest, heap up, herd, hive, hive up, huddle, impound, lay up, levy, mass, muster, pack, pick, pick up, pluck, raise, rake together, rally, reckon up, recover, recruit, reunite, round up, scoop up, smarten up, sum up, summon, summon up, tot up, total, totalize, treasure, treasure up, turn out), stoklamak (buy up, forestall, garner, lay in, lay up, pile, stock, stock up, stockpile), stok (budget, garner, holding, inventory, reserve, stock, stock in trade, store), istif etmek (pile, put up, stack), istif (piling, stack, stacking, stowing), define (treasure, treasure trove, trove), aklında tutmak (remember). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

та"мно зберігати (hoard up), та"мний склад, накопичувати (accumulate, amass, cumulate, gather, heap, heap up, hoard up, pile up, put aside, save), запасати (garner, hoard up, lay down, lay up, provide, reserve, store), запас (arrearage, fund, grist, holding, margin, reserve, spare, stockpile, store, supply). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

kho tích trữ, kho dự trữ (reservoir), chỗ cất giấu. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

cybydda (stint), cuddfa (hiding place), cronni (accumulate, amass, collect, dam), celc (concealment). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Hoard

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

recondo, thesaurizabit, thesaurizant, thesaurizare, thesaurizas, thesaurizastis, thesaurizat, thesaurizate, thesaurizaverunt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Hoard

Derivations

Words beginning with "hoard": hoarded, hoarder, hoarders, hoarding, hoardings, hoards. (additional references)

Words ending with "hoard": uphoard. (additional references)

Words containing "hoard": uphoarded, uphoarding, uphoards. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Hoard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bhuird, Chotard, Eoard, foard, Fozard, Hardd, Hearadh, Hirad, hoad, hoand, hoara, hoarde, hoare, hoarf, hoarg, hoari, hoars, hoart, hoaru, hodad, hoerd, hogar, holard, hora, Horadam, horae, horah, Horak, horan, Hord, horda, horf, hourd, hozad, huar, Huari, Khojand, loard, oard, Ohad, phwoar, Phwooar, shoard. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Hoard"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "hoard" (pronounced hô"rd)
4h ô" r dabhorred, horde.
3-ô" r daboard, accord, adored, afford, award, board, bored, chord, cord, deplored, explored, fjord, floored, Ford, gored, gourd, ignored, implored, Lord, oared, outscored, pored, poured, prerecord, reboard, record, restored, reward, roared, scored, shored, soared, stored, sword, toward, underscored, unexplored, untoward, ward.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Hoard

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-d-h-o-r"

-1 letter: hard, hoar, hora, orad, road.

-2 letters: ado, dah, dor, had, hao, hod, oar, ora, rad, rah, rho, rod.

-3 letters: ad, ah, ar, do, ha, ho, od, oh, or.

 Words containing the letters "a-d-h-o-r"
 

+1 letter: chador, dhoora, dourah, hadron, hairdo, hoards, holard.

 

+2 letters: bodhran, chadors, chordal, dhooras, dhourra, dorhawk, dourahs, hadrons, hagrode, hairdos, hardtop, hoarded, hoarder, holards, orchard, pochard, rhabdom, rhodora, roached, uphoard.

 

+3 letters: abhorred, anchored, authored, blowhard, bodhrans, broached, broadish, chaldron, chlordan, chordate, clochard, dhourras, dorhawks, dramshop, drophead, forehand, forehead, gheraoed, goatherd, hadronic, handover, handwork, harbored, hardboot, hardcore, hardnose, hardtops, hardwood, harrowed, headroom, headword, headwork, highroad, hoarders, hoarding, homeward, honorand, hoorahed, hoorayed, hospodar, hydragog, hydrator, hyracoid, nonhardy, odograph, orchards, orphaned, outheard, overhand, overhard, overhead, pochards, potshard, rhabdome, rhabdoms, rhapsode, rhapsody, rhodamin, rhodoras, roadshow, shadower, sorehead, thraldom, throated, uphoards.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Hoard


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

48 6F 61 72 64

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

....    ---    .-    .-.    -..

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001000 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#72 &#111 &#97 &#114 &#100

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0048 006F 0061 0072 0064

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4281678470

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Images: Photo Album
6. Sounds
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Historic
9. Usage Frequency
10. Names: Frequency
11. Expressions
12. Expressions: Internet
13. Translations: Modern
14. Translations: Ancient
15. Derivations
16. Rhymes
17. Anagrams
18. Orthography
19. Bibliography


  

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