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Definitions: Hoard |
HoardNoun1. A secret store of valuables or money. Verb1. 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: HoardSynonyms: 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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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Hoard |
| English words defined with "hoard": Hoarded ♦ Intreasure ♦ Nibelung ♦ Sigurd, Stock gold ♦ To put up ♦ Unhoard, Uphoard, Uplay. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "hoard": Hagan of Trony ♦ Nibelungen Hoard ♦ Overy ♦ youth crew. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "hoard": Intreasure ♦ Uphoard, Uplay. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Don't hoard medicines : ask your pharmacist you'll be taking good advice.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| 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. | |
| Author | Quotation |
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. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
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) |
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.47% | 186 | 22,556 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.53% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 187 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Hoard | Last name | 2,000 | 6,398 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
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. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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. | |
| 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), 囤 (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 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) 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) 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) taisg (deposit, lay up, store away). (various references) 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) acaparar (buy up, forage, hamsters, hoard up, hog, monopolize, overstock, to buy up, to corner). (various references) 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) แหล่งกักตุน. (various references) 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) 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) kho tích trữ, kho dự trữ (reservoir), chỗ cất giấu. (various references) cybydda (stint), cuddfa (hiding place), cronni (accumulate, amass, collect, dam), celc (concealment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | recondo, thesaurizabit, thesaurizant, thesaurizare, thesaurizas, thesaurizastis, thesaurizat, thesaurizate, thesaurizaverunt. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
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) | |
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"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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "hoard" (pronounced hô"rd) |
| 4 | h ô" r d | abhorred, horde. |
| 3 | -ô" r d | aboard, 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. | ||
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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 6F 61 72 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... --- .- .-. -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01101111 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H o a r d |
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)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4281678470 |
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