Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house or building where treasures and stores are kept; a place where hoarded riches or precious things are kept; a treasury.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a storehouse for treasures
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Examples
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At that time the nearest recording office was in the police barracks at Fort Cudahy, just across the river from Forty Mile; but when it became bruited abroad that Eldorado Creek was a treasure-house, it was quickly discovered that Olaf Nelson had failed to make the down-Yukon trip to file upon his property.
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The room beyond was like the vault of a treasure-house.
Clockwork Angel Cassandra Clare 2010
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The natives say it was the treasure-house of Chau-te-leur, a mighty king who reigned long 'before their fathers.'
princeofcairo: The Etymology Out of Time princeofcairo 2009
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We have a treasure-house of literature, going back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans.
doris lessing | a hunger for books « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2007
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As a treasure-house of characters and stories, the "Nights" is an essential point of reference for popular entertainments ranging from British pantomime to Romantic ballet and opera to Hollywood spectacle.
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The natives say it was the treasure-house of Chau-te-leur, a mighty king who reigned long 'before their fathers.'
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2009
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For me, the phrase ‘food culture’ summons a treasure-house of memories about meals cooked in the heart of local communities, by ordinary people: food that is gorgeous and gutsy, simple and delicious.
Culture Shock 2009
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We have a treasure-house of literature, going back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans.
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Essential not simply to preserve our own fragile existence in this immense treasure-house of living creatures, but also to preserve this almost infinitely varied life-support system upon which we depend for the necessities of life in a very large, cold and forbidding universe which is devoid of perceptible life everywhere but here on Earth.
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The keys to our Father's treasure-house hang freely on the hook of faith.
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