Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

treasure house

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: trea-sure -house
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

noun

A building where valuable things are stored.

noun

A collection of (usually intangible) valuable things.

Example Sentences

"Much of this work of renewal or maintenance, found its way into the works via the outdoor department, and constituted a veritable treasure house of experience in all classes of plant and machinery."
"Our investigation of the vast treasure house of Jewish sacred texts reveals how Judaism's varied and diverse conceptions of an individual afterlife experience developed progressively, from the sixth century B.C.E. onward."

Etymology

From Middle English tresour-hous, equivalent to treasure + house.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: tresour-hous

Inflected Forms

treasure houses (plural) treasurehouse (alternative) treasure-house (alternative)

Questions

What does treasure house mean?: A treasury.
Where does treasure house come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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