hoard: [OE] Etymologically, a hoard is ‘that which one hides’. The word comes from a prehistoric Germanic *khuzdam, which was derived from the same base as the verb hide. (Hoarding [19], incidentally, is not etymologically connected; it comes from an earlier hoard ‘fence’, which probably goes back via Old French hourd or hord to a prehistoric German form that also produced English hurdle [OE]. Nor is the identically pronounced horde [16] related: it goes back via Polish horda to Turkish ordū ‘camp’, source also of Urdu [18], etymologically the ‘language of the camp’.) => hide
hoard (n.)
Old English hord "treasure, valuable stock or store," from Proto-Germanic *huzdam (cognates: Old Saxon hord "treasure, hidden or inmost place," Old Norse hodd, German Hort, Gothic huzd "treasure," literally "hidden treasure"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).
hoard (v.)
Old English hordian, cognate with Old High German gihurten, German gehorden, Gothic huzdjan, from the root of hoard (n.). Related: Hoarded; hoarding.
实用例句
1. They've begun to hoard food and gaso-line and save their money.
他们已经存钱并开始贮藏食物和汽油。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He kept a little hoard of chocolates in his top drawer.
他在最上面的抽屉内藏了一些巧克力.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The case involves a hoard of silver and jewels valued at up to $40m.
此案涉及密藏的一批价值高达4,000万美元的银子和珠宝。
来自柯林斯例句
4. They've begun to hoard food and gasoline and save their money.
