Meaning of wordhoard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
2. Thesaurus.

Examples

“Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations.”

“Emerson came, unlocking his word hoard on nature and friendship and compensation, and irradiating his thoughts'with that peculiar slow smile⟳ that was like⟳ the emerging of the sun from behind a cloud.”

“Beowulf unlocked his word hoard. “We come⟳, indeed, from across the sea.””

“Primary additions to the wordhoard tend⟳ to come⟳ from commercial sources[.]”

“Still, in spite of the sensation of being caught between a ‘shield-wall’ of opaque references and a ‘word-hoard’ that is old and strange, such readers are also bound to feel⟳ a certain ‘shock⟳ of the new’.”

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