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Definition: TREASURE-TROVE |
TREASURE-TROVENoun1. Any money, bullion, or the like, found in the earth, or otherwise hidden, the owner of which is not known. In England such treasure belongs to the crown; whereas similar treasure found in the sea, or upon the surface of the land, belongs to the finder if no owner appears. |
Date "TREASURE-TROVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: TREASURE-TROVESynonyms: Hidden property, Loot. (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Good | Boon; (gift); good turn; blessing; world of good; piece of good luck, piece of good fortune; nuts, prize, windfall, godsend, waif, treasure-trove. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "TREASURE-TROVE" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "TREASURE-TROVE" is used about 2 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) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "TREASURE-TROVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hungarian | kincslelet (treasure trove, trove), gazdátlan kincslelet (trove). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | easure-trovetray tesouro (coffer, exchequer, treasure, treasury). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-o-r-r-r-s-t-t-u-v" | |
-3 letters: overeaters, overtreats, retreaters. | |
-4 letters: overeater, overrates, overstate, oversteer, overtreat, overtures, retorters, retreater, reverters, torturers, traverser, treasurer, trouveres. | |
-5 letters: arrestee, arrester, arrestor, austerer, evertors, outrates, outraves, outserve, outstare, outsteer, overeats, overrate, overseer, oversure, overtart, overture, rearouse, rearrest, reroutes, reserver, resetter, resorter, restorer, restrove, retorter, retreats, retrorse, reutters, reverers, reverser, reverter, rostrate, savourer, torturer, tortures. | |
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