hoard

UK/hɔːd/US/hɔɹd/

verbB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #10,898 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: hoarding, hoards, hoarded

To hoard is to store far more than you need and refuse to part with it. Hoard supplies, a hoard of coins, hoarding behaviour.

As a noun it is what archaeologists find: a buried hoard of coins or metalwork, often hidden in trouble and never recovered. Hoarding disorder is a recognised condition, and it is distress at discarding rather than mere untidiness. Horde is a different word.

Definitions of hoard

1verbhoardTo store far more than you need and refuse to part with it.B2+
“When the news spread, people began to hoard toilet paper and tinned food.”

hoard is a storing.

Where it comes from

Old English hord meant treasure or a store of valuables, from a Germanic root.

Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kewH- — to conceal, hide
Proto-Germanic
*huzdą — treasure; hoard
Proto-West Germanic
*hoʀd
Old English
hord — an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard
Middle English
hord
English, today
hoard

Built from

сокро́вище · Russian — treasure
скрыва́ть · Russian — to hide, to conceal

From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European (s)kewH- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development, compare сокро́вище (“treasure”) related to скрыва́ть (“to hide, to conceal”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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hoard in the wild

The Cuerdale Hoard is one of the largest Viking silver hoards ever found, four times larger than its nearest rival in Britain or Ireland, according to Richard Hall.
Cuerdale Hoard
The coins in the hoard are from three sources, represented in the proportions 5:1:1.
Cuerdale Hoard
The hoard consists of 14,865 Roman gold, silver, and bronze coins and approximately 200 items of silver tableware and gold jewellery.
Hoxne Hoard
The coins of the hoard date it after AD 407, which coincides with the end of Britain as a Roman province.
Hoxne Hoard
A large Bronze Age hoard of weapons and cart fittings (one in the shape of a duck), was discovered at the village in the late 19th century.
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