hoard
/hɔɹd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.23 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
noun
A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
noun
Misspelling of horde.
Example Sentences
- "a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money"
- "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, […]"
- "Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I."
- "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; […]"
- "When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish."
- "Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards[…]"
Etymology
From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development, compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɔɹd/
- British English: /hɔːd/