HOARD
What does "HOARD" mean?
To accumulate and hide away a store of money, food, or valuables; or such a hidden store itself.
Meanings
- To amass and store away a supply of something, often secretly or to excess. During the shortage, people began to hoard flour and tinned goods.
- A hidden stock or accumulated store of valuable things. The farmer's plough turned up a hoard of Roman silver coins.
Did you know?
- A metal-detector hobbyist found the Staffordshire Hoard in 2009 - over 3,500 pieces of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver, the richest such trove ever unearthed.
- Compulsive hoarding only became its own recognized psychiatric diagnosis in 2013, when the DSM-5 split it off from obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Word origin
From Old English 'hord', a treasure or store, from Proto-Germanic '*huzda-'; related to German 'Hort'. Not to be confused with the unrelated 'horde'.
Remember it
HOARD has an OAR in it - row your treasure secretly to shore and bury it. HORDE (the crowd) has no oar.
A little poem
He sealed the gold in the dark of the hill,
counting nothing he ever would spend-
and the dragon of having kept watch, and kept still.
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Wordplay
- I tried to hoard maps, but I just couldn't find the room - every time I made space, I lost track of where everything was.
What it teaches
A thing kept and never used becomes a weight, not a wealth; the store you cannot spend owns you.
Quick facts
What does HOARD mean?
To accumulate and hide away a store of money, food, or valuables; or such a hidden store itself.
Is HOARD a valid word?
Yes — HOARD is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HOARD?
HOARD has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does HOARD come from?
From Old English 'hord', a treasure or store, from Proto-Germanic '*huzda-'; related to German 'Hort'. Not to be confused with the unrelated 'horde'.
What can HOARD teach us?
A thing kept and never used becomes a weight, not a wealth; the store you cannot spend owns you.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.