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hoard

noun

  1. collection of valuable objects or artifacts
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verb

  1. to accumulate a hoard
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /hɔɹd/ / /hɔːd/ / /ho(ː)ɹd/

name

  1. A surname.

noun

  1. Misspelling of horde.

verb

Etymology: From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.

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

    The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]

    Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]

  2. To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.