Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

treasure chest

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English

Syllables: trea-sure ch-est
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.

noun

A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.

noun

Any source of something valuable or beautiful.

Example Sentences

"They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]"
"The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest."
"When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide."
"a treasure chest of poems"

Inflected Forms

treasure chests (plural)

Synonyms

gold mine treasure trove

Questions

What does treasure chest mean?: A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.

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