treasure

[TreasĀ·ure]

Treasure is usually associated with riches gold, jewels, doubloons the stuff contained in pirates' treasure chests. However, you can also treasure things with purely sentimental value like your pet rock or your blankie.

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Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

Noun
art highly prized for its beauty or perfection

Noun
a collection of precious things; "the trunk held all her meager treasures"

Noun
any possession that is highly valued by its owner; "the children returned from the seashore with their shells and other treasures"

Noun
accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.; "the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies"

Verb
be fond of; be attached to

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Verb
hold dear; "I prize these old photographs"


n.
Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

n.
A great quantity of anything collected for future use; abundance; plenty.

n.
That which is very much valued.

v. t.
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.


Treasure

Treas"ure , n. [OE. tresor, tresour, F. tr'82sor, L. thesaurus, Gr. a stone laid up, treasure, probably from the root of to put, place. See Thesis, and cf. Thesaurus.] 1. Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.
This treasure hath fortune unto us given.
2. 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.
3. 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. Ex. i. 11.

Treasure

Treas"ure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Treasured ; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

Wealth accumulated; especially, a stock, or store of money in reserve.

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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Usage Examples

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

A witty woman is a treasure a witty beauty is a power.

And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.

I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part of a sensible way of living. It's a heroic path and it generally ends dangerously. I treasure it in the sense that I believe it's a path of great courage. It can also be the path of the foolhardy and the compulsive.

I have been blessed in many ways, and one of those is to have been born in Africa, for me a great treasure house of stories. I have been researching it since my infancy reading about it, talking to men and women who have spent their lives in this land, living it as I have and loving it as I do. I write almost entirely from my own experience.

I suppose I should say that I treasure blasphemy, as a faith of the highest order.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

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Other Usage Examples

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

I think humor is important for all of us, and a great comedian is a great treasure.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

I think people are by-and-large happy with the providers that they have got now. They treasure that doctor-patient relationship.

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