Treasure

Definition: Treasure

Treasure

Noun

1. Accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; "the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies".

2. Art highly prized for its beauty or perfection.

3. Any possession that is highly valued by its owner; "the children returned from the seashore with their shells and other treasures".

4. A collection of precious things; "the trunk held all her meager treasures".

Verb

1. Hold dear; "I prize these old photographs".

2. Be fond of; be attached to.

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

Date "treasure" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Treasure

Acquisition

Treasure up; (store); realize, clear; produce; take.

Inexpedience

Tidbit; gem, gem of the first water; bijou, precious stone, jewel, pearl, diamond, ruby, brilliant, treasure; good thing; rara avis, one in a thousand.

Memory

Commit to memory, memorize; con over, con; fix in the memory, rivet in the memory, imprint in the memory, impress in the memory, stamp in the memory, grave in the memory, engrave in the memory, store in the memory, treasure up in the memory, bottle up in the memory, embalm in the memory, enshrine in the memory; load the memory with, store the memory with, stuff the memory with, burden the memory with.

Money

Noun: money, legal tender; money matters, money market; finance; accounts; funds, treasure; capital, stock; assets;(property); wealth; supplies, ways and means, wherewithal, sinews of war, almighty dollar, needful, cash; mammon.

Sensibility

Take to heart, treasure up in the heart; shrink.

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.

Stock in trade, supply; heap; (collection); treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche.

Crosswords: Treasure

It's the simple things in life that you treasure. (Galaxy Quest; writing credit: David Howard)

Why else would you have decided not to tell Miss Kendall why our little treasure here has a belly full of microfilm (North by Northwest; writing credit: Ernest Lehman)

The treasure is still there boys, believe me. (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen)

Mark can keep his mansion and his money and his cars cause right now I'm holding in my arms the greatest treasure on Earth (Promised Land; writing credit: Frédéric D'Onfs; Olivier Langlois)

This is a treasure for all mankind (Rupan sansei: Kariosutoro no shiro; writing credit: Hayao Miyazaki; Monkey Punch)

Send a treasure token token (Goody Two Shoes; performing artist: Adam Ant)

Where every moment spent with you is a moment I treasure (I Don't Want To Miss A Thing; performing artist: AEROSMITH)

The reflex is in charge of finding treasure in the dark (The Reflex; performing artist: Duran Duran)

Is a treasure I hold (Fame and Fortune; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

In this land of forbidden treasure (I Cry; performing artist: Ja Rule)

There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure. (references; author: Mark Twain)

All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with. (references; author: unknown)

Don't be afraid to learn. Knowledge is weightless, a treasure you can always carry easily. (references; author: unknown)

Quotations are sometimes valuable pearls, but original thoughts can be priceless treasure. (references; author: unknown)

Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974)

The Holiday Treasure (1973)

Treasure Galleons (1973)

An Absolute Treasure (1967)

Treasure Isle (1967)

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

Books

• Tarot Abecedarian: The Treasure House of Images (reference)

• Presto! Magic Treasure (Abracadabra, 3) (reference)

• The Generosity Factor: Discover the Joy of Giving Your Time, Talent, and Treasure (reference)

• There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection (reference)

• LifeBooks : Creating a Treasure for the Adopted Child (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Treasure Coast Genealogical Society Bulletin (reference)

• Treasure Hunting (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Adventurous Treasure Island (reference)

• Rain Forest: Treasure House of Biodiversity DVD (reference)

• Discoveries Ireland, A Celtic Treasure (reference)

• Treasure Houses of Britain--2--Palaces of Reason and Delight (reference)

• Treasure of the 4 Crowns (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Treasure (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Nancy Drew Treasure In The Royal Tower (reference)

• Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon (reference)

• Moop and Dreadly: The Treasure on Bing Bong Island (reference)

• Treasure Planet: Broadside Blast (JC) (reference)

• Dora the Explorer The Search for Pirate Pig's Treasure (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Treasure Craft Alice In Wonderland Salt & Pepper Set (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

A giant spiny lobster is an attraction at Treasure Village. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Strolling along the beach looking for the random treasure. Credit: America's Coastlines.

An oiled beach north of Blind Pass, Treasure Island. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Buried treasure activityEnvironmental EducationFire WorkshopMcCall, IdahoFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Shelley Davis-Brunner.

Little things mean much, Privacy is a treasure, Pain can be shared... and fears lifted. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Treasure Co., Mont. June 1939. Young sugar beet worker with his dog A. Rothstein. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Hunting the hidden treasure. Credit: Library of Congress.

The treasure hunt --. Credit: Library of Congress.

President Franklin Roosevelt at microphones at luncheon given for him, Golden Gate Exposition, Treasure Island. Credit: Library of Congress.

Gleaming Treasure Island ... San Francisco Bay, site of the 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition ... Peggy Marks is in the foreground, on one of the Elephant Towers, looming beyond is the magnificent Tower of the Sun. Credit: Library of Congress.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He acts also contrary to his trust, when he either employs the force, treasure, and offices of the society, to corrupt the representatives, and gain them to his purposes; or openly preengages the electors, and prescribes to their choice, such, whom he has, by solicitations, threats, promises, or otherwise, won to his designs; and employs them to bring in such, who have promised before-hand what to vote, and what to enact. (Second Treatise of Government)

If we adhere faithfully to the Charter of the United Nations and walk forward in sedate and sober strength seeking no one's land or treasure, seeking to lay no arbitrary control upon the thoughts of men; if all British moral and material forces and convictions are joined with your own in fraternal association, the high-roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time, but for a century to come. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Emma was quite eager to see this superior treasure.

That famous treasure of his dreams was probably there

Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure,-- Sweet is pleasure after pain

And thither bear your treasure and your goods

A few pieces of fat pine were a great treasure.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

The government does not plan to privatize EDELCA, which is well-managed and considered a national treasure. (references)

Economic History

China

At great expense in blood and treasure, the Manchus over the next half century gained control of many border areas, including Xinjiang, Yunnan, Tibet, Mongolia, and Taiwan. (references)

Travel

Denmark

Danes treasure their leisure time, most of which is spent with the family. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Master of the treasure

Expressions using "treasure": buried treasure ♦ find of treasure ♦ treasure chamber ♦ treasure chest ♦ treasure cities ♦ Treasure city ♦ Treasure County ♦ treasure flower ♦ treasure house ♦ treasure houses ♦ treasure hunt ♦ treasure island ♦ Treasure Lake ♦ treasure ship ♦ treasure State ♦ treasure trove ♦ treasure up ♦ treasure up in the heart ♦ treasure vault. Additional references.

Beginning with "treasure": treasure-box, treasure-chest, treasure-hoard, treasure-house, treasure-hunt, treasure-hunter, treasure-hunters, treasure-hunting, treasure-seeker, treasure-seekers, treasure-seeking, treasure-ship, treasure-trove, treasure-troving.

Afrikaans

skat (darling). (various references)

Albanian

thesar (depository, exchequer, jewel, richness, thesaurus, treasure house), ruaj si thesar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كنز (garner, mine, thesaurus, treasure trove), ‏قدر (afford, amount, appraise, appreciate, assess, assume, be able to, be capable of, believe, can, consider, cost, count, deal, degree, esteem, estimate, evaluate, guess, lot, magnitude, manage to, measure, number, predestination, predestine, predetermine, presume, prize, proportion, quantity, rate, size, suppose, think, value, volume), ‏حفظ (commit to memory, conservation, conserve, desiccate, din into, keep, keeping, maintenance, memorize, preservation, protect, protection, reservation, reserve, retain, save, set aside, store), ‏تعلق (affection, appertain, attach, become attached, cherish, cleave, concern, crush, depend, fixation, hold of smth., pertain, respect, snag, stick by smb., touch), ‏أعز (cherish, hold dear, respect), ‏ثروة (fortune, mammon, opulence, pelf, purse, resource, resources, riches, substance, wealth). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съкровище (gem, hoard, jewel), ценя високо (prize, value), високо ценен човек, милея за, любим човек, лелея (cherish, nurse). (various references)

Chinese 

鉆 , 珍惜 (cherish, value), 珍宝, 珍 (precious thing), 愛護 (cherish, take good care of), 愛惜 (cherish, use sparingly), 寶貴 (precious, set store by, valuable, value), 寶貝 (baby, cowry, darling, good-for-nothing or queer character, treasured object), 寶物 . (various references)

Czech

vážit si (appreciate, esteem, make much of, prize, regard, repute, respect, revere), poklad (hoard, love), chovat jako poklad. (various references)

Danish

skat (tax). (various references)

Dutch

schat (darling, sweetheart). (various references)

Esperanto

trezoro. (various references)

Faeroese

dýrgripur. (various references)

Farsi 

گنجینه اندوختن , گنجینه (Thesaurus, Treasury, Trove), گنج (Hoard, Treasury), گرامی داشتن 2 (Cherish, Value), خزانه (Exchequer, Magazine, Thesaurus, Treasury), جواهر (Bijou, Gem, Jewel, Ouch), ثروت (Fortune, Gold, Mammon, Money, Possession, Wealth, Worth), دفینه . (various references)

Finnish

aarre (hoard). (various references)

French

trésor (treasure house, treasure trove, treasury). (various references)

French Canadian

trésor. (various references)

Frisian

skat (darling). (various references)

German

Schatz (baby, darling, fund, hoard, lass, love, natural resources, passion flower, poppet, store, sweetheart, wealth). (various references)

Greek 

εκτιμώ πολύ (regard highly), θησαυρόσ (hoard, thesaurus), θησαυρός (thesaurus), θησαυρίζω (hoard), θεωρώ πολύτιμο. (various references)

Hebrew 

מטמון (storehouse), יקיר (beloved, darling, dear, honourable, notable, worthy), לאצור (accumulate, collect, garner, hoard, store up), להוקיר (adore, appreciate, cherish, hold dear, prize, respect, venerate), אוצר, גנזים (coffer, record), סגולה (mascot, merit, peculiarity, property, qualification, qualifications, quality, remedy, trait, virtue). (various references)

Hungarian

kincs (hoard). (various references)

Indonesian

harta karun. (various references)

Irish

ciste (box, chest, chest; treasure). (various references)

Italian

tesoro (darling, dear, exchequer, hoard, honey, pet, sweetheart). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

虎の子 (tiger cub), 財宝　, 財宝 , 重器 (invaluable person), 秘蔵 (cherish, prize, treasured), 秘宝 (treasured article), 宝物 (treasured item), 宝庫 , 宝　, 宝 , 什物 (fixtures, furniture, utensil). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

たからもの (treasured item), たから, ざいほう, ひぞう (cherish, prize, spleen, treasured), ひほう (news of a death, sad news, secret formula, secret medicine, secret method, secret process, secret recipe, treasured article, urgent message, urgent report), ほうこ, ほうもつ (treasured item), じゅうもつ (fixtures, furniture, utensil), じゅうき (appliance, furniture, heavy machine gun, hollyhock, invaluable person, small arms, utensil), とらのこ (tiger cub). (various references)

Korean 

보물. (various references)

Manx

tashtey (cache, deposit, dew, dump, fund; damp, hoard, keep, lay up, lodgement, put by, reserve price, save, saving; stockpile, stock up, store, stow; dumping, stowage), tashtee stoyr. (various references)

Papiamen

tesoro. (various references)

Pig Latin

easuretray.(various references)

Polish

skarb. (various references)

Portuguese

tesouro (coffer, exchequer, treasure-trove, treasury). (various references)

Romanian

tezauriza (amass, hoard), tezaur (coffer, hoard, store, thesaurus, treasury), preţui (appreciate, cost, estimate, go for, hold, prize, put, rate, value), pãzi (await, award, be careful, defend, fend, guard, heep an eye on, herd, keep, restrain, shield, tend, watch), pãstra cu mare grijã, odor (darling, dear, duck, fondling, gem, gold, jewel, love, Pearl), giuvaer (gem), comoarã (duck, gem, hoard, knock out, love, mine, precious, riches, spoil, thesaurus, treasury, wealth), ţine mult la. (various references)

Russian 

сокровище ценный, сокровище, хранить (keep, treasured). (various references)

Scottish

tasgaidh (depository, thing laid by), ionmhas (riches), eudail (darling, treasure; cattle; term of endearment). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

visoko ceniti (apprise, apprize, hold in esteem, prise, prize), skupiti (aggregate, amass, assemble, collect, congregate, constrict, contract, gather, lay up, levy, pucker, raise, rake, shrink), riznica (hoard, repertory, treasure house, treasury), gomilati (accumulate, mass), dragocenost, blago (blandly, gold, mildly, pelf, quietly, smoothly), čuvati (conserve, favor, favour, guard, husband, protect, store, tend, watch). (various references)

Spanish

tesoro (capital at hand, mine, treasure chest, treasury). (various references)

Sranan

gudu (affluent, rich, wealthy, well-off). (various references)

Swedish

skatt (assessment, cess, duty, imposition, impost, jewel, tax), skatta (estimate, pay taxes, pay tribute to, plunder, rifle, value). (various references)

Turkish

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, hoard, 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 up, turn out), servet (abundance, affluence, assets, effects, fortune, gold, havings, means, pile, possessions, property, riches, shekels, substance, wealth), hazine (coffer, coffers, exchequer, repertory, revenue, riches, store, storehouse, stores, thesaurus, treasure house, treasury, trove), define (hoard, treasure trove, trove), değerli insan (jewel), değerini bilmek (appreciate, assess, value), değer vermek (appreciate, cherish, dignify, esteem, have a high opinion of, prize, value). (various references)

Turkmen 

hazyna (treasury). (various references)

Ukrainian

скарб, коштвність, гроші (balsam, bean, blunt, brass, cash, charm, chink, clink, dibs, dime, dough, l.s.d., money, moo, necessary, needful, ocher, ochre, oil, oof, pelf, posh, scads, shekels, sugar, the stuff, wherewithal), високо цінувати (cherish, prize), збирати і зберігати як скарб. (various references)

Vietnamese 

vật quý (asset, curiosity, jewel, lion), người yêu quý (beloved), người được việc, châu báu, của cải (effect, fortune, mean, meant, money, property, shekel), bạc vàng. (various references)

Welsh

trysor. (various references)

thesauros. (various references)

acervi, acervis, acervo, acervorum, acervos, acervum, acervus, gaza, gazae, gazam, gazara, gazaris, gazarumque, gazas, gazeos, ops, thesaurus. (various references)

beahhord, goldhord, hord. (various references)

tresor. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "treasure": treasured, treasurer, treasurers, treasurership, treasurerships, treasures. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Treasure" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: preasure, trasure, treasuer, treasupe, treasurie, treaure, tresour, tresure, triazole, Trimsaren, trisure. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: austerer.

-1 letter: austere, erasure, retears, serrate, tearers, ureters.

-2 letters: aretes, arrest, easter, eaters, eraser, rarest, raster, rasure, raters, reseat, reseau, rester, retear, retuse, searer, seater, starer, tarres, tearer, teaser, terrae, terras, terser, urares, urates, urease, ureter.

-3 letters: arete, aster, aures, eater, erase, ester, rares, raser, rater, rates, rears, reest, reset, reuse, ruers, saree, saute, serer.

+1 letter: apertures, creatures, renatures, saunterer, treasured, treasurer, treasures.

+2 letters: adulterers, chartreuse, departures, enraptures, lusterware, mercurates, prelatures, prematures, recaptures, saunterers, treasurers, treasuries, underrates.

+3 letters: adventurers, chartreuses, drumbeaters, enumerators, literatures, lusterwares, marguerites, marquetries, natriureses, parquetries, pasteurizer, quarterages, quarterlies, rearguments, recuperates, remunerates, reregulates, returnables, sauerbraten, slaughterer, superaltern, superheater, supermarket, supernature, supertanker, temerarious, terraqueous, tetramerous, treacherous, treasurable, ultrasecret, underreacts, undertakers, untraversed, watercourse.