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treasure

noun
/ˈtɹɛʒə/UK/ˈtɹɛʒɚ/US

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.

  1. derived from θησαυρός
  2. derived from thēsaurus
  3. derived from tresor
  4. inherited from tresour

Definitions

  1. A collection of valuable things

    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.
    • You have ſent me a Treaſure, and I vvould not ſhare time to tell you ſo, till I had ſomevvhat ſatisfied the thirſt I had to drink dovvn many of thoſe Excellent Sermons, vvhich I have ſo long deſired: […]
    • 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.

  3. To consider to be precious

    To consider to be precious; to value highly.

    • Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.
    • I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ? I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ; I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. 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.

    2. To enrich.

    3. A surname.

    4. A female given name.

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Derived

blood and treasure, eight-treasure, non-treasure, one man's trash is another man's treasure, one woman's trash is another woman's treasure, the real treasure is the friends we made along the way, treasure chest, treasure city, treasure flower, treasure house, treasure hunt, treasure-hunter, treasurelike, treasure map, treasure ship, treasure trail, treasure trove, treasure-trove, buried treasure, intreasure, national treasure, treasurable, Treasure County, treasureless, treasurer, treasuress, treasury, untreasure

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at treasure. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at treasure. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at treasure

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA