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- Dictionaryhoard/hɔːd/
noun
- 1. a stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded: "he came back to rescue his little hoard of gold"
verb
- 1. accumulate (money or valued objects) and hide or store away: "thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector"
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to keep a large number of things that are not needed or have no value, because you are suffering from a mental condition: She hoarded dirty bottles, old newspapers, broken appliances, even plastic bags from cereal boxes. Psychiatrists are not sure what makes a person start hoarding. Fewer examples. I was hoarding candles in case of a power cut.
A hoard is a store of things that you have saved and that are valuable or important to you or you do not want other people to have. The case involves a hoard of silver and jewels valued at up to $40m.
Hoard is a verb meaning to accumulate things and closely guard them, often in a greedy or excessive way, as in Dragons are known for hoarding treasure. It can also be used as a noun to collectively refer to the things that have been accumulated, as in a hoard of treasure.
verb. hoarded; hoarding; hoards. transitive verb. 1. : to collect and often hide away a supply of : to accumulate a hoard (see hoard entry 1) of. hoarding food. 2. : to keep (something, such as one's thoughts) to oneself. she hoarded her intention Virginia Woolf.
to keep a large number of things that are not needed or have no value, because you are suffering from a mental condition: She hoarded dirty bottles, old newspapers, broken appliances, even plastic bags from cereal boxes. Psychiatrists are not sure what makes a person start hoarding. Fewer examples. I was hoarding candles in case of a power outage.
To hoard is to save something (or lots of things) for future use. Squirrels hoard nuts for the winter. Old ladies tend to hoard canned food and used plastic bags.
hoard (of something) a collection of money, food, valuable objects, etc., especially one that somebody keeps in a secret place so that other people will not find or steal it. They dug up a hoard of Roman coins.
hoard (something) to collect and keep large amounts of food, money, etc., often secretly. The prisoners used to hoard scraps of food in secret places.
HOARD definition: 1. to collect and store a large supply of something, often secretly: 2. a large, secret supply or…. Learn more.
What does the noun hoard mean? There are four meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun hoard , two of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
