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- Dictionaryhoard/hɔːd/
noun
- 1. a stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded: "he came back to rescue his little hoard of gold"
verb
- 1. accumulate (money or valued objects) and hide or store away: "thousands of antiques hoarded by a compulsive collector"
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HOARD definition: 1. to collect large amounts of something and keep it for yourself, often in a secret place: 2. to…. Learn more.
1. : to collect and often hide away a supply of : to accumulate a hoard (see hoard entry 1) of. hoarding food. 2. : to keep (something, such as one's thoughts) to oneself. she hoarded her intention Virginia Woolf. the people outside disperse their affections, you hoard yours, you nurse them into intensity Joseph Conrad. intransitive verb.
To hoard is to save something (or lots of things) for future use. Squirrels hoard nuts for the winter. Old ladies tend to hoard canned food and used plastic bags.
to keep a large number of things that are not needed or have no value, because you are suffering from a mental condition: She hoarded dirty bottles, old newspapers, broken appliances, even plastic bags from cereal boxes. Psychiatrists are not sure what makes a person start hoarding. Fewer examples. I was hoarding candles in case of a power outage.
Hoard definition: a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.. See examples of HOARD used in a sentence.
A hoard is a store of things that you have saved and that are valuable or important to you or you do not want other people to have. The case involves a hoard of silver and jewels valued at up to $40m.
hoard (of something) a collection of money, food, valuable objects, etc., especially one that somebody keeps in a secret place so that other people will not find or steal it They dug up a hoard of Roman coins.
