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noun

Treasure n.

Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve. "This treasure hath fortune unto us given."

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."

That which is very much valued. "Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me." "From thy wardrobe bring thy chiefest treasure."

Treasure city, a city for stores and magazines.

verb

Treasure v. t. (past & past part. treasured; pres. part. treasuring) To collect and deposit, as money or other valuable things, for future use; to lay up; to hoard; usually with up; as, to treasure up gold.

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Etymology of 'Treasure'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Treasure" Quotes from Famous Books

... Nell, I want to show my treasure to the good folk who have known me since I was a boy. Perhaps the news has reached the village by this time—for the servants at the Hall know it, and I want them to see how happy you ...

— Nell, of Shorne Mills - or, One Heart's Burden • Charles Garvice

... he stammered. "I was saying that—that I don't know what I should have done without Mrs. Coffin. She's a treasure. Frankly, she is the only real friend I have found ...

— Keziah Coffin • Joseph C. Lincoln

... my wits against his, follow him about till he has to drop his load to breathe, when a sudden start sends him off, and I secure it. If I cover up anything, he knows at once it is some forbidden treasure, and devotes all his energy and cunning, which are great, to uncovering and possessing himself of it. He opens any box by delivering sharp blows under the edge of the cover, and hides my postage stamps in books and magazines. He ...

— In Nesting Time • Olive Thorne Miller

... stood in a sequestered cove, While countless memories of love Heaped treasure, till her sea of ...

— Daisy Dare, and Baby Power - Poems • Rosa Vertner Jeffrey

... capricious surges of the Mediterranean! Were, then, all his strivings and agonies in vain? Did he love this woman with any earthly love? Was he jealous of the thought of a future husband? Was it a tempting demon that said to him, "Lorenzo Sforza might have shielded this treasure from the profanation of lawless violence, from the brute grasp of an inappreciative peasant, but Father Francesco cannot"? There was a moment when his whole being vibrated with a perception of what a marriage bond might have been that was indeed a sacrament, and that ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 7, No. 44, June, 1861 • Various

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