hoard

1. 1.

   a secret store of valuables or money

   Synonymscachestash

   Broaderstore

Other forms of hoard

plural

hoards·

past tense

hoarded·

present participle

hoarding·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hoard

What does hoard mean?

hoard means "save up as for future use". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hoard?

hoard has 1 syllable: hoard. In IPA it is /ˈhɔɹd/.

What is another word for hoard?

Close synonyms include stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hoard a common word?

hoard is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hoard?

1 word rhymes with hoard. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.