Meaning of treasure | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc
3. A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
   countable, literally, uncountable
4. A female given name.
5. Anything greatly valued. A term of endearment. The female genitals; pudenda
6. Anything greatly valued.
   countable, figuratively
7. regarded as precious; valued. The photograph of her son is her most treasured possession. kosbaar ثَمين، مُقَدَّر ценен prezado drahocenný geschätzt skattet πολύτιμοςvalioso, precioso kallihinnaline, väärtuslik ارزشمند kallisarvoinen précieux מוּעֲרָך כְּאוֹצָר smatrati vrijednim kincsként őrzött dihargai sem er í miklum metum prezioso 大切な 소중한 brangiausias visdārgākais; visvērtīgākais barang berharga kostbaardyrebar, høyt verdsattcenny ارزښتمند prezado preţios бесценный drahocenný dragocen dr...
8. A term of endearment
9. A term of endearment.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
10. the person in a club, society etc, who looks after the money. tesourier أمين صُنْدوق ковчежник tesoureiro pokladník der/die Schatzmeister(in) kasserer ταμίαςtesorero varahoidja خزانه دار؛ بانکدار rahastonhoitaja trésorier/-ière גזבר कोषाध्यक्ष blagajnik pénztáros bendahara gjaldkeri tesoriere 会計係 회계원 iždininkas mantzinis; kases pārzinis bendahari penningmeesterkassererskarbnik خزانه دار، بانکدار tesoureiro trezorier казначей pokladník blagajnik blagajnik skattmästare, kassör เหรัญญิก sayman, ...
    etc
11. The female genitals; pudenda
12. The female genitals; pudenda.
    countable, euphemistic, figuratively, in-plural, literary, uncountable
13. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables: search for buried treasure; spending much of the national treasure on armaments.
14. To consider to be precious; to value highly
15. Valuable or precious possessions of any kind.
16. One considered especially precious or valuable: bought several treasures at the estate sale; saw her assistant as a treasure.
17. To keep or regard as precious; value highly. See Synonyms at appreciate.
18. To accumulate or store away, as for future use: "This same withered and crumbling flower ... Five and fifty years it has been treasured between the leaves of this old volume" (Nathaniel Hawthorne).
19. wealth and riches, usually hoarded, esp in the form of money, precious metals, or gems
20. a thing or person that is highly prized or valued
21. to prize highly as valuable, rare, or costly

Equivalents

Examples

“It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff.”

“"Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.”

“Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.”

“You have ſent me a Treaſure, and I vvould not ſhare time to tell you ſo, till I had ſomevvhat ſatisfied the thirſt I had to drink dovvn many of thoſe Excellent Sermons, vvhich I have ſo long deſired: […]”

“I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure.”

“She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet / Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet”

“"Hello, Treasure," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.”

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