hoard

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɔːd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: horde, whored

From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), from Proto-Indo-European *kusdʰo-. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin custos (“guard; keeper”).

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hidden supply or fund.

   a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)

1. To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

• engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

• declutter

• hoarder
• hoardy

See hoarding.

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
2. A hoarding (billboard).

hoard

1. Misspelling of horde.

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