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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A collection of valuable items discovered or found; a treasure-trove.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. Something of value found; a find.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth)

Etymologies

  1. Originally in the phrase treasure trove, from Anglo-Norman tresor trové 'found treasure'; postnominal adjective later reinterpreted as head noun. (Wiktionary)
  2. Short for (treasure-)trove. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “The trove is virtually all from Picasso's personal collection of his own works, which reflect how he hoped to shape his own legacy.”

    The Wall Street Journal: The Short List: A Guide to This Week's Arts and Entertainment

  • “Captain Cook left his treasure trove from the Southern seas, and the”

    Through the Malay Archipelago

  • “trove, as in treasure trove, is a verb, not a noun, and means found.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » The influence of French words in English legal terminology

  • “Our intelligence agencies are still methodically analyzing the so-called trove of documents and data -- "a bonanza of intelligence" -- our brave Navy SEALs captured during their daring raid.”

    The Huffington Post: Dorian de Wind: Will Bin Laden's "Dead Hand" Reach Out From Its Watery Grave?

  • “For help, the court turned not only to the dictionary, as it traditionally has, but to a billion-word trove of digitized English text known as the "BYU corpora.”

    The Wall Street Journal: 'I' Is a Window To the Soul

  • “He had found in some ruins a sort of treasure-trove, that is to say, an earthenware jar containing a sum of about ten thousand francs in old gold and silver coins; and not only had he handed it over to the owner of the ruins, whom he might easily have deceived, but further he had refused to accept any reward, declaring emphatically in his abbreviated jargon, "honesty would die selling itself.”

    Mauprat

  • “The head of the Travancore royal family Maharaja Uthradam Thirunal Marthanda Varma regularly stole priceless jewellery and coins from the temple's treasure trove, which is estimated to be worth £14 billion, according to former temple employees and Kerala's former chief minister.”

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph

  • “The trove is a combination of two major gas fields -- called Leviathan and Tamar, named for the granddaughter of Israeli energy mogul Yitzhak Tshuva.”

    JTA - Recent News

  • “Brandon McInerney, the 14-year-old accused of murdering fellow gay student, Lawrence King when King, an unapologetically open homosexual, asked McInerney to be his Valentine, was discovered to be housing a "trove" of White Supremacist material according to prosecutors reports the L.A. Times.”

    MOC Blog

  • “The "trove" of white supremacist literature and drawings depict a "racist skinhead philosophy of the variety espoused by Tom Metzger, David Lane and others," Fox wrote.”

    Joe. My. God.

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hypernyms (2)

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  1. treasure
  1. hoarded wealth

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  1. evocation
  1. b'fore
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Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Dove
  2. Grove
  3. Hove
  1. Nov
  2. Soave
  3. bove
  1. cove
  2. dove
  3. drove
  1. gove
  2. grove
  3. hove
  1. rove
  2. soave
  3. stove
  1. strove
  2. throve
  3. wove

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  • seanahan Also a GNU package. Sep 28, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Hmm...after a bit of research, found this on Wiki:

    "Treasure trove" literally means "treasure that has been found". The English term "treasure trove" was derived from tresor trové, the Anglo-French equivalent of the Latin legal term thesaurus inventus. In 15th-century English the Anglo-French term was translated as "treasure found", but from the 16th century it began appearing in its modern form with the French word trové anglicized as "trovey", "trouve" or "trove".

    So perhaps it doesn't come apart from "treasure", and for good reason! Say it ain't so. Sep 25, 2009

  • bilby Tonald Tuck trove me crazy. Sep 25, 2009

  • Telofy I'm sure these corpora abound with examples. Sep 25, 2009

  • milosrdenstvi Can anyone think of usage outside the common, alliterative, almost-one-word-by-now "treasure trove"? Sep 24, 2009

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