Definitions for hoards

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hoards hoard

Spelling: [hawrd, hohrd]

IPA: /hɔrd, hoʊrd/

Hoards is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 124 anagrams from letters in hoards (adhors).

Definitions for hoards

noun

1. a supply or accumulation that is hidden or carefully guarded for preservation, future use, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to accumulate for preservation, future use, etc., in a hidden or carefully guarded place:

verb (used without object)

1. to accumulate money, food, or the like, in a hidden or carefully guarded place for preservation, future use, etc.

Origin of hoards

before 900; Middle English hord(e), Old English hord; cognate with Old Norse hodd, Old High German hort, Gothic huzd treasure; see hide¹, Examples for hoards

JML: Attractive celebrities are usually followed by a hoard of women.

Had the workmen dug six inches deeper, they would have found the hoard.

That I hoard medication and go to sleep each night on a big pile of Zithromax?

And by the end of the war he had managed to hoard at least 1,400 hugely valuable works for himself.

In the grave on the hill a hoard it guarded, in the stone-barrow steep.

After his death the dragon takes possession of the hoard and watches over it.

Former official Debbie Cook's email to 12,000 church members alleges financial wrongdoing and a $1 billion hoard.

It was like listening to a child babbling of its hoard of shells.

This was the one in which the dragon lay guarding the hoard.

Big companies can hoard their money and sport big profits, but ultimately they have to sell to consumers and small firms.