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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a secret store of valuables or money;
[syn: hoard, cache, stash]


VERB (2)

1. save up as for future use;
[syn: hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away]

2. get or gather together;
- Example: "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"
- Example: "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"
- Example: "She rolled up a small fortune"
[syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoard \Hoard\, n. See Hoarding, 2. --Smart. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoard \Hoard\, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal.] A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoard \Hoard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarding.] [AS. hordian.] To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Hoard \Hoard\, v. i. To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. [1913 Webster] To hoard for those whom he did breed. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

hoard n 1: a secret store of valuables or money [syn: hoard, cache, stash] v 1: save up as for future use [syn: hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away] 2: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn: roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

117 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoard": abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, amass, amassment, assemble, backlog, budget, cache, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, collect, collection, colluvies, commissariat, commissary, conglomeration, cornucopia, cumulate, cumulation, dividends, dump, earnings, filthy lucre, fund, gain, gains, garner, garner up, gather, gather into barns, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, heap, heap up, hide, hoard up, hold, income, interest, inventory, keep, killing, larder, lay by, lay up, lucre, makings, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, neat profit, nest egg, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, proceeds, profit, profits, provisionment, provisions, put away, put up, rake-off, rations, receipts, repertoire, repertory, reserve, reservoir, return, returns, rick, save, save up, secrete, set aside, sock away, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stash, stock, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, store up, stores, supplies, supply, supply on hand, take, take-in, treasure, treasure up, treasury, trove, wealth, winnings