trove

Also found in: Thesaurus, Legal, Financial, Wikipedia.

trove

(trōv)

A collection of valuable items discovered or found; a treasure-trove.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

trove

(trəʊv)

See treasure-trove

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

trove

(troʊv)

n.

1. a collection of objects, esp. a valuable one.

2. any valuable discovery.

[1885–90; short for treasure -trove]

ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Switch to new thesaurus

Noun

trove - treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth)

treasure trove

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

Mentioned in ?

References in classic literature ?

I gazed at this varied trove brought home by sailor sons, and pondered the mystery of Margaret Henan, who had driven her husband to his death and been forsaken by all her kin.

View in context

Be that as it might, I seemed to see that woman's figure still clutching at her treasure trove and flying wildly up the winding stair, with her ears ringing perhaps with the muffled screams from behind her and with the drumming of frenzied hands against the slab of stone which was choking her faithless lover's life out.

View in context

"By Jove, Peterson!" said he, "this is treasure trove indeed.

View in context

Not until sunset did the merry crowd carry their pots and pans and trove of mussels up to the road and depart.

View in context

Hence Corinth was for many a year to me A home distant; and I trove abroad, But missed the sweetest sight, my parents' face.

View in context

"He had made his start, you know, in the South Seas--pearls and pearl shell--and he was sure that more fortunes, in trove of one sort and another, were to be picked up.

View in context

A Fox, envying him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading the Monkey to the place where it was, said that she had found a store, but had not used it, she had kept it for him as treasure trove of his kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it.

View in context

Agno, chief of the devil devil doctors, had stumbled across him on the beach, and, despite the protestations of the boy who claimed him as personal trove, had ordered him to the canoe house.

View in context

Whereupon he loaded Kwaque with his trove and put him in front to lead along the runway to the beach.

View in context

Anne thought what a treasure trove it would be to a writer.

View in context

Incident by incident in the beautiful story he identified on the blurred stone, puzzled here and there by the unfamiliar Greek convention, but delighted as a child at each new trove. Where the sequence failed, as in the Annunciation, the Curator supplied it from his mound of books - French and German, with photographs and reproductions.