HOARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoard mean? 

• HOARD (noun)
  The noun HOARD has 1 sense:

1. a secret store of valuables or money

  Familiarity information: HOARD used as a noun is very rare.

• HOARD (verb)
  The verb HOARD has 2 senses:

1. save up as for future use

2. get or gather together

  Familiarity information: HOARD used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOARD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A secret store of valuables or money

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

cache; hoard; stash

Hypernyms ("hoard" is a kind of...):

fund; stock; store (a supply of something available for future use)

Derivation:

hoard (save up as for future use)

• HOARD (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they hoard    ... he / she / it hoards   
Past simple: hoarded   
Past participle: hoarded   
-ing form: hoarding   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Save up as for future use

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

cache; hive up; hoard; lay away; squirrel away; stash

Hypernyms (to "hoard" is one way to...):

lay aside; save; save up (accumulate money for future use)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They hoard the money in the closet

Derivation:

hoard (a secret store of valuables or money)

hoarder (a person who accumulates things and hides them away for future use)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Get or gather together

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

accumulate; amass; collect; compile; hoard; pile up; roll up

Context example:

She rolled up a small fortune

Hypernyms (to "hoard" is one way to...):

hive away; lay in; put in; salt away; stack away; stash away; store (keep or lay aside for future use)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hoard"):

run up (pile up (debts or scores))

corral (collect or gather)

collect; pull in (get or bring together)

come up; scrape; scrape up; scratch (gather (money or other resources) together over time)

chunk; lump (put together indiscriminately)

bale (make into a bale)

catch (take in and retain)

fund (accumulate a fund for the discharge of a recurrent liability)

fund (place or store up in a fund for accumulation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They hoard the money in the closet

 Context examples 

Her three notes—unluckily they were all in my pocketbook, or I should have denied their existence, and hoarded them for ever—I was forced to put them up, and could not even kiss them.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He had hoarded, all these years, I found, to good purpose.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He took the purse, poured the hoard into his palm, and chuckled over it as if its scantiness amused him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She also allowed her to roam about the great house, and examine the curious and pretty things stored away in the big wardrobes and the ancient chests, for Aunt March hoarded like a magpie.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Impelled by an irresistible presentiment, you will eagerly advance to it, unlock its folding doors, and search into every drawer—but for some time without discovering anything of importance—perhaps nothing but a considerable hoard of diamonds.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

He rushes to some secret hoard, where he has accumulated the fruits of his beggary, and he stuffs all the coins upon which he can lay his hands into the pockets to make sure of the coat’s sinking.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a strange collection, like Billy Bones's hoard for the diversity of coinage, but so much larger and so much more varied that I think I never had more pleasure than in sorting them.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I had my own old plate, with a brown view of a man-of-war in full sail upon it, which Peggotty had hoarded somewhere all the time I had been away, and would not have had broken, she said, for a hundred pounds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was the fifteenth of January, about nine o'clock in the morning: Bessie was gone down to breakfast; my cousins had not yet been summoned to their mama; Eliza was putting on her bonnet and warm garden-coat to go and feed her poultry, an occupation of which she was fond: and not less so of selling the eggs to the housekeeper and hoarding up the money she thus obtained.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She soon became interested in her work, for her emaciated purse grew stout, and the little hoard she was making to take Beth to the mountains next summer grew slowly but surely as the weeks passed.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)