hoard

• (General American) IPA^(key): /hɔɹd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /hɔːd/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ho(ː)ɹd/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /hoəd/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
• Homophones: horde, whored

From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”.[1] Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”).

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hidden supply or fund.

   a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)

1. To amass, usually for one's own private collection.

• engross, uphoard; see also Thesaurus:amass

• declutter

• hoarder

• hoarder
• hoardy

See hoarding.

hoard (plural hoards)

1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
2. A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
   • 1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord:

     Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards […]

3. A hoarding (billboard).

hoard

1. Misspelling of horde.

• Hoarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• hoard (archaeology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• horde

• Rhoad, Rhoda, hadro-