hoard - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'hoard' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Hoard

[ n.]

- See Hoarding, 2.
- 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.

2 . Hoard

[ v. i.]

- To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.

3 . Hoard

[ v. t.]

- 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.

Meaning of 'hoard' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . hoard

[ v]

Meaning (1):
- get or gather together

Example in sentence:

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

Nearby Words:

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