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🇩🇪German Source WordCode: DE

Hort

Pronunciation / Transliteration: hɔʁt

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Hoard/hɔːrd/
nounverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #8500 frequency
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🇩🇪 Example Sentence in German:

"Der Pirat versteckte seinen Hort auf einer einsamen Insel."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A stock or store of money or valued objects, typically one that is secret or carefully guarded.

    "The dragon sat atop its massive gold hoard inside the mountain cave."
As verb
  1. 1

    To accumulate a large stock of goods or money and hide or guard it.

    "During the supply shortage, many people began to hoard non-perishable food items."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Old English 'hord', meaning treasure, refuge, or hidden stock, of Germanic origin. It is related to Old High German 'churt' and Gothic 'hord', ultimately stemming from an Indo-European root associated with covering or hiding.

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