hoard

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

hoard, n. 

 See Hoarding, 2.  Smart.  [1913 Webster]

hoard, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

hoard, v. t. [AS. hordian.].

 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.  [1913 Webster]

hoard, v. i. 

 To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.  [1913 Webster]
"To hoard for those whom he did breed."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hoard, n. & v.
--n.
1 a stock or store (esp. of money) laid by.
2 an amassed store of facts etc.
3 Archaeol. an ancient store of treasure etc.
--v.
1 tr. (often absol.; often foll. by up) amass (money etc.) and put away; store.
2 intr. accumulate more than one's current requirements of food etc. in a time of scarcity.
3 tr. store in the mind.

Derivative

hoarder n.

Etymology

OE hord f. Gmc

THESAURUS

hoard

abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, amass, amassment, assemble, backlog, budget, cache, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, collect, collection, colluvies, commissariat, commissary, conglomeration, cornucopia, cumulate, cumulation, dividends, dump, earnings, filthy lucre, fund, gain, gains, garner, garner up, gather, gather into barns, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, heap, heap up, hide, hoard up, hold, income, interest, inventory, keep, killing, larder, lay by, lay up, lucre, makings, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, neat profit, nest egg, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, proceeds, profit, profits, provisionment, provisions, put away, put up, rake-off, rations, receipts, repertoire, repertory, reserve, reservoir, return, returns, rick, save, save up, secrete, set aside, sock away, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stash, stock, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, store up, stores, supplies, supply, supply on hand, take, take-in, treasure, treasure up, treasury, trove, wealth, winnings

ROGET THESAURUS

hoard

Store

N store, stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve, Adj, stored, in store, in reserve, in ordinary, spare, supernumerary, adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.

VB store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store Adj, keep, file (papers), lay in, preserve.