TROVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trove mean? 

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

1. treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TROVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

treasure trove; trove

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

hoarded wealth; treasure (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.)

 Context examples 

The heavyweight planet, which has the mass of 10 Jupiters, has been observed repeatedly, allowing astronomers to accumulate a relatively large trove of data.

(WASP-18b Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water, NASA)

As expected, all these data suggest a trove of water ice throughout the Martian poles and mid-latitudes.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

He made another discovery of treasure- trove in the library.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

They had just found a great treasure-trove.

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

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)

“By Jove, Peterson!” said he, “this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you have got?”

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

Sheldon says it's the latest and greatest in machine learning to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure trove of bird migration information in the decades-long radar data archives.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman’s figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover’s life out.

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

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)