TREASURE HOUSE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does treasure house mean? 

• TREASURE HOUSE (noun)
  The noun TREASURE HOUSE has 1 sense:

1. a storehouse for treasures

  Familiarity information: TREASURE HOUSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASURE HOUSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A storehouse for treasures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("treasure house" is a kind of...):

depot; entrepot; storage; store; storehouse (a depository for goods)

 Context examples 

But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)