Word Meanings - TREASURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer. 2. A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and

Additional info about word: TREASURE

1. Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. This treasure hath fortune unto us given. Chaucer. 2. A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty. We have treasures in the field, of wheat and of barley, and of oil and of honey. Jer. xli. 8. 3. That which is very much valued. Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me. Ex. xix. 5. From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure. Milton. Treasure city, a city for stores and magazines. Ex. i. 11.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TREASURE)

• Embalm
• Conserve
• preserve
• treasure
• store
• enshrine
• consecrate
• Enshrine
• Consecrate
• embalm
• cherish
• Hoard
• Treasure
• accumulate
• husband
• store up
• amass
• heap up
• lay up
• Riches
• Wealth
• opulence
• affluence
• wealthiness
• richness
• plenty
• abundance
• possessions
• Store
• treasury
• garner
• provision
• supply
• fund
• accumulation
• hoard
• shop
• place of business
• ammunition
• stock

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TREASURE)

• Scatter
• squander
• dissipate
• disregard
• disesteem
• prostitute
• waste
• betray

Related words: (words related to TREASURE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• RICHESSE
  Wealth; riches. See the Note under Riches. Some man desireth for to have richesse. Chaucer. The richesse of all heavenly grace. Spenser.
• STOCKER
  One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• CONSECRATE
  Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• CHERISHMENT
  Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• ACCUMULATE
  To heap up in a mass; to pile up; to collect or bring together; to amass; as, to accumulate a sum of money. Syn. -- To collect; pile up; store; amass; gather; aggregate; heap together; hoard.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• TREASURER
  One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority;
• STOCK-BLIND
  Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• DECONSECRATE
  To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n.
• ARCHTREASURER
  A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• CAMASS
  A blue-flowered liliaceous plant of northwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food by the Indians. Note: The Eastern cammass is Camassia Fraseri.