TREASURE TROVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does treasure trove mean? 

• TREASURE TROVE (noun)
  The noun TREASURE TROVE has 2 senses:

1. treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth)

2. any collection of valuables that is discovered

  Familiarity information: TREASURE TROVE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TREASURE TROVE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Treasure of unknown ownership found hidden (usually in the earth)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

treasure trove; trove

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

hoarded wealth; treasure (accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any collection of valuables that is discovered

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Context example:

mother's attic was a treasure trove when we were looking for antiques

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

accumulation; aggregation; assemblage; collection (several things grouped together or considered as a whole)

 Context examples 

“By Jove, Peterson!” said he, “this is treasure trove indeed. I suppose you know what you have got?”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)

Sheldon says it's the latest and greatest in machine learning to extract bird data from the radar record and to take advantage of the treasure trove of bird migration information in the decades-long radar data archives.

(Using artificial intelligence to track birds' dark-of-night migrations, National Science Foundation)

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.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An international team of astronomers has discovered and confirmed a treasure trove of new worlds using NASA's Kepler spacecraft on its K2 mission.

(Kepler Confirms 100+ Exoplanets During Its K2 Mission, NASA)