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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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HOARD definition: 1. to collect large amounts of something and keep it for yourself, often in a secret place: 2. to…. Learn more.
HOARD meaning: 1. to collect large amounts of something and keep it for yourself, often in a secret place: 2. to…. Learn more.
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.
The meaning of HOARD is a supply or fund stored up and often hidden away. How to use hoard in a sentence.
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.
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.
If you hoard things such as food or money, you save or store them, often in secret, because they are valuable or important to you. 2. 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.
HOARD definition: 1. to collect a lot of something, often secretly: 2. a lot of something that someone keeps…. Learn more.
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.
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. OED is undergoing a continuous programme of revision to modernize and improve definitions. This entry has not yet been fully revised.
