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treasure house

noun

Etymology

From Middle English tresour-hous, equivalent to treasure + house.

  1. inherited from tresour-hous

Definitions

  1. A treasury.

  2. A building where valuable things are stored.

  3. A collection of (usually intangible) valuable things.

    • Much of this work of renewal or maintenance, found its way into the works via the outdoor department, and constituted a veritable treasure house of experience in all classes of plant and machinery.
    • Our investigation of the vast treasure house of Jewish sacred texts reveals how Judaism's varied and diverse conceptions of an individual afterlife experience developed progressively, from the sixth century B.C.E. onward.

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