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hoard¹

  • /hɔɹd/ US
  • /hɔːd/ UK
  • /ho(ː)ɹd/
  • /hoəd/

Sounds like horde, whored · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d

Where it comes from

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”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”).

For the meaning development, compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).

noun hoards

  1. A hidden supply or fund. a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
  2. A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.

hoard²

  • /hɔɹd/ US
  • /hɔːd/ UK
  • /ho(ː)ɹd/
  • /hoəd/

Sounds like horde, whored · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d

Where it comes from

From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.

verb hoards · hoarding · hoarded

  1. transitive To amass, usually for one's own private collection. The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]
  2. transitive To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.

Similar: engross, uphoard

hoard³

  • /hɔɹd/ US
  • /hɔːd/ UK
  • /ho(ː)ɹd/
  • /hoəd/

Sounds like horde, whored · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d

Where it comes from

From Middle English hord, whorde, from Anglo-Norman hurde and Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”), from Middle Dutch horde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi (“wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”).

noun 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 A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice. 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).

hoard⁴

  • /hɔɹd/ US
  • /hɔːd/ UK
  • /ho(ː)ɹd/
  • /hoəd/

Sounds like horde, whored · Rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)d

noun

  1. misspelling Misspelling of horde.horde

Hoard⁵

proper noun Hoards

  1. A surname.

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