Definitions for Hoard
hɔrd, hoʊrdhoard

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hoard, cache, stashverb

   a secret store of valuables or money

2. hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel awayverb

   save up as for future use

3. roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoardverb

   get or gather together

   "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 1 vote

1. hoardnoun

   A hidden, secret supply or fund.

2. hoardnoun

   A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

3. hoardverb

   To amass, usually for one's personal collection.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HOARDnoun

   A store laid up in secret; a hidden stock; a treasure.

   Etymology: hord, Saxon.

   I have a venturous fairy, that shall seek
   The squirrel’s hoard, and fetch thee thence new nuts. William Shakespeare.

   They might have even starved, had it not been for this providential reserve, this hoard, that was stowed in the strata underneath, and now seasonably disclosed. John Woodward, Nat. History.

2. To Hoardverb

   To lay in hoards; to husband privily; to store secretly.

   The hoarded plague of the gods requite your love? William Shakespeare.

   I have just occasion to complain of them, who, because they understand Geoffrey Chaucer, would hoard him up as misers do their grandam gold, only to look on it themselves, and hinder others from making use of it. John Dryden, Fab. Preface.

   You hoard not health for your own private use,
   But on the publick spend the rich produce. John Dryden, Fables.

   The base wretch, who hoards up all he can,
   Is prais’d, and call’d a careful thrifty man. John Dryden, Juven.

   You will be unsuccessful, if you give out of a great man, who is remarkable for his frugality for the publick, that he squanders away the nation’s money; but you may safely relate that he hoards it. John Arbuthnot, Art of political Lying.

   A superfluous abundance tempts us to forget God, when it is hoarded in our treasures, or considered as a safe, independent provision laid up for many years. John Rogers, Sermon 2.

3. To Hoardverb

   To make hoards; to lay up store.

   He fear’d not once himself to be in need,
   Nor car’d to hoard for those whom he did breed. Fa. Queen.

   Happy always was it for that son,
   Whose father for his hoarding went to hell? William Shakespeare, Hen. VI.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hoard

   A hoard is a stock or store of money, valuable objects, or other assets, usually hidden or carefully guarded, often collected or accumulated over a long period of time. The term can also refer to the act of amassing and storing away such items.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hoardnoun

   see Hoarding, 2

2. Hoardnoun

   a store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

3. Hoardverb

   to collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain

4. Hoardverb

   to lay up a store or hoard, as of money

5. Etymology: [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hoard

   In archaeology, a hoard, or 'wealth deposit', is a collection of valuable objects or artifacts, sometimes purposely buried in the ground. This would usually be with the intention of later recovery by the hoarder; hoarders sometimes died before retrieving the hoard, and these surviving hoards may be uncovered much later by metal-detectorists, members of the public, and archaeologists. Forgetfulness and physical displacement from the location of the hoard may contribute to failing to retrieve it. Hoards provide a useful method of providing dates for artifacts through association as they can usually be assumed to be contemporary and therefore used in creating chronologies. Hoards can also be considered an indicator of the relative degree of unrest in ancient societies. Thus conditions in 5th century and 6th century Britain spurred the burial of hoards, of which the most famous are the Hoxne Hoard, Suffolk; the Mildenhall Treasure, the Fishpool Hoard, Nottinghamshire, the Water Newton hoard, Cambridgeshire, and the Cuerdale Hoard, Lancashire, all preserved in the British Museum. Prudence Harper of the Metropolitan Museum of Art voiced some practical reservations about hoards at the time of the Soviet exhibition of Scythian gold in New York, 1975. Writing of the so-called "Maikop treasure", Harper warned:

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hoard

   hōrd, n. a store: a hidden stock: a treasure: a place for hiding anything.—v.t. to store: to amass and deposit in secret.—v.i. to store up: to collect and form a hoard.—n. Hoard′er. [A.S. hord; Ice. hodd, Ger. hort.]

2. Hoard

   hōrd, Hoarding, hōrd′ing, n. a hurdle or fence enclosing a house and materials while builders are at work: any boarding on which bills are posted. [From O. Fr. hurdis—hurt, hourt, hourd, a palisade.]

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hoard

   A collection, often depicted as treasure.

   The dragon's hoard was immense, filled with jewels and gold, swords and armor, bones and furs.

   
   

   Submitted by JP03 on March 22, 2015  

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1. Hoard

   Hoard vs. Horde -- In this Grammar.com article you will learn the differences between the words Hoard and Horde.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HOARD

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hoard is ranked #8299 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hoard surname appeared 3,992 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 1 would have the surname Hoard.
   
   73.7% or 2,943 total occurrences were White.
   21.6% or 864 total occurrences were Black.
   1.9% or 79 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   1.9% or 78 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   0.4% or 16 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.3% or 12 total occurrences were Asian.

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Anagrams for Hoard »

1. Rhoda

How to pronounce Hoard?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Hoard in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hoard in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Hoard in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Hoard in a Sentence

1. Laurence Sterne:

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

2. President Trump:

   Food Many grocers are limiting the number of certain items that can be purchased, such asmilk, eggs andmeat. As stores continue to restock Food Many grocers shelves, some shoppers are resorting tocanned goods, frozen fruitsand other alternatives. President Trump assured Americans on Monday that there is no need to hoard supplies, saying the supply chain remained healthy. You dont have to buy so much, take it easy, just relax.

3. Gareth Williams:

   This hoard has the potential to provide important new information on relations between Mercia and Wessex.

4. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson:

   My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them

5. Adam Daubney:

   The area between Grantham and Boston was a zone of intense conflict between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists in the early years of the war, so we can think of the Ewerby hoard as being from the ‘front-line,’ the hoard tells us about the uncertainty and fear that must have been felt at the time, but quite why it was buried – and by whom – is impossible to say.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Hoard
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hoard
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=Hoard
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Hoard
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=Hoard
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=Hoard
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html