TROVE
What does "TROVE" mean?
A store of valuable or delightful things, especially one discovered or collected.
Meanings
- A valuable collection or hoard, often newly found. The attic held a trove of letters no one had read in fifty years.
- Treasure of unknown ownership found hidden, as in 'treasure trove'. The coins were declared treasure trove and went to the museum. technical
Did you know?
- 'Trove' is barely a word on its own: it was carved out of the legal phrase 'treasure trove', from Anglo-French for 'found treasure', and originally just meant 'found'.
Word origin
A back-formation from 'treasure trove', from Anglo-French 'tresor trové', meaning 'found treasure', where 'trové' is the past participle of 'trover', to find.
Remember it
TROVE rhymes with 'drove' - someone drove a long way to bury the trove.
A little poem
A box under boards,
coins green with patient silence -
found is half of worth.
haiku
Wordplay
- I found a trove of old puns in the basement - turns out 'trove' just means I finally found something.
What it teaches
A trove is only treasure once someone bothers to find it; value waits on attention.
Quick facts
What does TROVE mean?
A store of valuable or delightful things, especially one discovered or collected.
Is TROVE a valid word?
Yes — TROVE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is TROVE?
TROVE has 5 letters and 1 syllable.
Where does TROVE come from?
A back-formation from 'treasure trove', from Anglo-French 'tresor trové', meaning 'found treasure', where 'trové' is the past participle of 'trover', to find.
What can TROVE teach us?
A trove is only treasure once someone bothers to find it; value waits on attention.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.