treasure
//ˈtɹɛʒə//
Forms
- Plural
- treasures
- present (v1)
- treasure
- past (v2)
- treasured
- past participle (v3)
- treasured
- present participle
- treasuring
- 3rd person singular
- treasures
Definitions
1.A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
- It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.
2.Anything greatly valued.
- Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.
- I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure.
1.To consider to be precious; to value highly.
- Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
2.To store or stow in a safe place.
- The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.
3.To amass or collect together as though a treasure.
- He seems to have carefully treasured up all the tales he heard, and he wrote and published them, under the feigned name of Gian Alesio Abbatutis, in his native dialect, not long before his death.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4255
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin thēsaurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek θησαυρός (thēsaurós, “treasure house”).
Mostly displaced native Old English goldhord (See goldhoard) and Old English ġestrēon.
Doublet of thesaurus.