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"TREASURES" is a plural of: treasure. |
Date "TREASURES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Dream Interpretation | To dream that you find treasures, denotes that you will be greatly aided in your pursuit of fortune by some unexpected generosity. If you lose treasures, bad luck in business and the inconstancy of friends is foretold. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Crosswords: TREASURES |
| English words defined with "TREASURES": Cofferer ♦ treasure house, Treasure-house. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "TREASURES": Babel, tower of, Bartoldo ♦ Cluricaune ♦ Fire-drake ♦ GNOME, Griffon, Griffen ♦ Husterloe ♦ Ill-got, Ill-spent ♦ Little-Endians ♦ Pharaoh's daughters ♦ Treasure cities. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | When one is in Egypt, one should delve deeply into its treasures. (The Spy Who Loved Me; writing credit: Christopher Wood) Inside the Ark are treasures beyond your wildest aspirations. (Raiders of the Lost Ark; writing credit: George Lucas; Philip Kaufman) As the world becomes more primitive, its treasures become more fabulous. (Kiss Me Deadly; writing credit: Mickey Spillane; A.I. Bezzerides) | |
Lyrics | Secret treasures (More Than A Woman; performing artist: Aaliyah) Like treasures they twinkle in the sun (Androgyny; performing artist: Garbage) Let all your treasures make you fear for your life (The Prophet's Song; performing artist: Queen; writing credit: Brian May) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Treasures for the Making (1951) Vienna Art Treasures (1950) Treasures from Trash (1946) Unknown Treasures (1926) Travel Treasures (1925) | |
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The Hubble Space Telescope continues to reveal various stunning and intricate treasures that ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Inspecting the treasures obtained from a bottom dredge. Credit: Fisheries. | |
![]() | European Roots of American Pharmacy: An Exhibition of Pharmaceutical Treasures. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ![]() | Troubled treasures. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Mexican rulers, migrating from Matamoras with their treasures. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Spanish Civil War: 1,000,000 dead, $20,000,000,000 lost, 32 months of terror, ruined cities, wrecked homes, bombed factories, lost treasures, farms injured / Willard Combes. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Author Unknown | Lay up your treasures in heaven where there is no depreciation. |
Hitopadesa | A store of grain, Oh king is the best of treasures. A gem put in your mouth will not support life. |
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation. |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. |
Robert Green Ingersoll | The Church has always been willing to swap off treasures in heaven for cash down. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She held the parcel towards her, and Emma read the words Most precious treasures on the top. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Bands of little boys came out from the towns to break the windows and to pick over the debris, looking for treasures. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It may be that he lays up no treasures in this world which will cool his summer drink in the next. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Denmark | The State Museum of Art and the Glyptotek, both in Copenhagen, contain treasures of Danish and international art. (references) |
Ukraine | Lviv, included in the UNESCO list of historic treasures, may be especially interesting for construction and design companies. (references) | |
Romania | The country's many Orthodox monasteries, as well as the Transylvanian Catholic and Evangelical Churches, some of which date back to the 13th century, are repositories of artistic treasures. (references) | |
Trade | Eritrea | However, many items cannot be exported from Eritrea including national/cultural treasures and endangered wildlife. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | GNOME, n. In North-European mythology, a dwarfish imp inhabiting the interior parts of the earth and having special custody of mineral treasures. Bjorsen, who died in 1765, says gnomes were common enough in the southern parts of Sweden in his boyhood, and he frequently saw them scampering on the hills in the evening twilight. Ludwig Binkerhoof saw three as recently as 1792, in the Black Forest, and Sneddeker avers that in 1803 they drove a party of miners out of a Silesian mine. Basing our computations upon data supplied by these statements, we find that the gnomes were probably extinct as early as 1764. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | In the light of this equality, we know that the virtues most cherished by free people--love of truth, pride of work, devotion to country--all are treasures equally precious in the lives of the most humble and of the most exalted. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We must preserve our treasures in every community. |
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| "TREASURES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 92.52% of the time. "TREASURES" is used about 480 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 (plural) | 92.52% | 445 | 13,012 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 4.99% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.49% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Total | 100.00% | 480 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "TREASURES". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Belteshazzar | N/A | Biblical | Who lays up treasures in secret |
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| 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 |
international legend lost museum mystery myth treasures.net | 13 |
international legend lost museum mystery myth treasures.com | 13 |
heart tender treasures.com | 6 |
heavenly treasures.com | 4 |
tasteful treasures.com | 3 |
aegean treasures.com | 3 |
artful treasures.net | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "TREASURES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 八寶 (eight treasures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | beskyttelse af nationale skatte af kunstnerisk,historisk eller arkaeologisk vaerdi (historic or archaelogical value, the protection of national treasures possessing artistic), beskyttelse af de nationale skatte (protection of the national treasures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tot bescherming van het nationaal cultuurbezit van artistieke,historische en archeologische waarde (historical or archeological value, on grounds of the protection of national treasures possessing artistic), heemschut (protection of the national treasures), bescherming van het nationaal artistiek,historisch of archeologisch bezit (historic or archaelogical value, the protection of national treasures possessing artistic), bescherming van het cultuurhistorisch bezit (protection of the national treasures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | aarteenkaivaja (digger for treasures). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | protection des trésors nationaux (protection of the national treasures), pour des raisons de protection des trésors nationaux ayant une valeur artistique,historique ou archéologique (on grounds of the protection of national treasures possessing artistic), la protection des trésors nationaux ayant une valeur artistique,historique ou archéologique (the protection of national treasures possessing artistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schätze (riches, wealth), sammelt (collects, garners, gathers, gleans, rallies). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προστασία των εθνικών θησαυρών (protection of the national treasures), η προστασία των εθνικών θησαυρών που έχουν καλλιτεχνική,ιστορική ή αρχαιολογική αξία (historic or archaelogical value, the protection of national treasures possessing artistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | protezione dei beni appartenenti al patrimonio nazionale (protection of the national treasures), la protezione del patrimonio artistico,storico o archeologico nazionale (historic or archaelogical value, the protection of national treasures possessing artistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 貴重" (valuables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きちょうひ" (valuables). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | easurestray protecção dos tesouros nacionais (protection of the national treasures), a protecção do património nacional de valor artístico,histórico ou arqueológico (historic or archaelogical value, the protection of national treasures possessing artistic). (various references) tesoros. (various references) skydda nationella skatter av konstnärligt,historiskt eller arkeologiskt värde (historic or archaelogical value, the protection of national treasures possessing artistic). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | erim. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 4 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ean zhthshV authn wV argurion kai wV qhsaurouV exereunhshV authn |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Si quaesieris eam quasi pecuniam et sicut thesauros effoderis illam |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | If thou shalt sechen it as money, and as tresoris deluen it out; |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth; |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 2, Verse 4 |
| Cebuano | Kong ikaw mangita kaniya ingon nga salapi, Ug magapangita kaniya ingon sa tinipigan nga mga bahandi: |
| Chinese | 尋 找 他 如 尋 找 銀 子 、 搜 求 他 如 搜 求 隱 藏 的 珍 寶 、 |
| Croatian | ako ga potražiš kao srebro i tragaš za njim kao za skrivenim blagom - |
| Danish | søger du den som Sølv og leder den op som Skatte, |
| Dutch | Zo gij haar zoekt als zilver, en naspeurt als verborgen schatten; |
| Finnish | jos haet sitä kuin hopeata ja etsit sitä kuin aarretta, |
| French | Si tu la cherches comme l`argent, Si tu la poursuis comme un trésor, |
| German | so du sie suchest wie Silber und nach ihr froschest wie nach Schätzen: |
| Haitian Creole | Kouri dèyè konesans tankou moun k'ap kouri dèyè lajan. Chache konesans tankou moun k'ap chache ja lajan. |
| Hungarian | Ha keresed azt, mint az ezüstöt, és mint a kincseket kutatod azt: |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Carilah itu seperti mencari emas, dan kejarlah itu seperti mengejar harta yang terpendam. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | jikalau engkau mencahari dia seperti perak dan menyelidik dia seperti mata benda yang tersembunyi; |
| Italian | se la ricercherai come l'argento e per essa scaverai come per i tesori, |
| Maori | Ki te rapua hoki ia e koe ano he hiriwa, ki te kimihia ano he taonga huna; |
| Norwegian | dersom du leter efter den som efter sølv og graver efter den som efter skjulte skatter, |
| Portuguese | se o buscares como a prata e o procurares como a tesouros escondidos; |
| Rumanian | dacq o vei cquta ca argintul, wi vei umbla dupq ea ca dupq o comoarq, |
| Russian | ЕУМЙ 'Х"ЕЫШ ЙУЛБФШ ЕЗП, ЛБЛ УЕТЕ'ТБ, Й ПФЩУЛЙЧБФШ ЕЗП, ЛБЛ УПЛТПЧЙЭЕ, |
| Spanish | si como a la plata la buscas y la rebuscas como a tesoros escondidos, |
| Swedish | Om du söker efter henne såsom efter silver och letar efter henne såsom efter en skatt, |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Misspellings | |
"TREASURES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: trasure, treasuer, treasupe, treaure, treausres, tresure, trisure, Troisgros. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "TREASURES" (pronounced tre"zherz) |
| 4 | -e" zh er z | measures, pleasures. |
| 3 | -zh er z | Arbitragers, arbitrageurs, braziers, closures, countermeasures, disclosures, enclosures, exposures, foreclosures, seizures. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: asserter, austerer, erasures, reassert, reassure, serrates, terrases, treasure, tressure. | |
-2 letters: arrests, assurer, austere, easters, erasers, erasure, rasters, rasures, reseats, reseaus, resters, retears, searest, seaters, serrate, starers, tearers, teasers, tessera, trusser, ureases, ureters. | |
-3 letters: aretes, arrest, assert, assure, asters, easter, eaters, eraser, erases, esters, estrus, rarest, rasers, raster, rasure, raters, reests, reseat, reseau, resets. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-r-r-s-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: saunterers, treasurers, treasuries. | |
+2 letters: chartreuses, lusterwares, natriureses. | |
+3 letters: pasteurizers, sauerbratens, slaughterers, subsecretary, superalterns, superheaters, supermarkets, supernatures, supertankers, watercourses. | |
+4 letters: oversaturates, prematureness, quarterstaves, restaurateurs, stercoraceous, subterraneous, subtreasuries, supersaturate, treasurership, waterthrushes. | |
+5 letters: bureaucrateses, bureaucratises, counterstreams, creatureliness, quartermasters, remeasurements, restauranteurs, subliteratures, subsecretaries, superabsorbent, supergravities, supersaturated, supersaturates, treasurerships, understrappers. | |
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