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HOARDED WEALTH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hoarded wealth mean? 

HOARDED WEALTH (noun)
  The noun HOARDED WEALTH has 1 sense:

1. accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.play

  Familiarity information: HOARDED WEALTH used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HOARDED WEALTH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

hoarded wealth; treasure

Context example:

the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies

Hypernyms ("hoarded wealth" is a kind of...):

riches; wealth (an abundance of material possessions and resources)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hoarded wealth"):

fortune (a large amount of wealth or prosperity)

valuable (something of value)

king's ransom (a very large treasure)

treasure trove; trove (treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth))


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