treasure
[ˈtɹɛʒɚ]
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.17 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff."
- ""Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore."
- "Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me."
- "You have ſent me a Treaſure, and I vvould not ſhare time to tell you ſo, till I had ſomevvhat ſatisfied the thirſt I had to drink dovvn many of thoſe Excellent Sermons, vvhich I have ſo long deſired: […]"
- "I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure."
- "She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet / Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet"
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”). Mostly displaced native Old English goldhord (See goldhoard) and Old English ġestrēon. Doublet of thesaurus.
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Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [ˈtɹɛʒɚ]
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Phrases
blood and treasure
eight-treasure
non-treasure
one man's trash is another man's treasure
one woman's trash is another woman's treasure
the real treasure is the friends we made along the way
treasure chest
treasure city