treasure chest

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treasure chest

noun treasure chests

  1. A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
  2. metonymically A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury. They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […]
  3. figuratively Any source of something valuable or beautiful. a treasure chest of poems

    Similar: gold mine, treasure trove

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noun chest filled with treasure

Españolcofre del tesoro
日本語宝箱 takarabako
中文百寶箱 /百宝箱 bǎibǎoxiāng, 財寶箱 /财宝箱 cáibǎoxiāng
Portuguêsbaú de tesoro, cofre de tesoro
Françaiscoffre au trésor
DeutschSchatzkiste
Italianocofano di tesoro
Русскийсунду́к сокро́вищ sundúk sokróvišč

noun royal treasury

中文寶庫 /宝库 bǎokù
DeutschSchatztruhe
Русскийсокро́вищница sokróviščnica

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@misc{treasure_chest_2026,
  title = {treasure chest},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/treasure%20chest},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}