word-hoard
See also: wordhoard
English
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Etymology
A modern calque of Old English wordhord (“treasury of words”), equivalent to word + hoard. Compare Dutch woordenschat, German Wortschatz.
Noun
word-hoard (plural word-hoards)
- Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.
- 1930, Janet Rankin Aiken, “English the world over”, in The Bookman, London, page 67:
- 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.
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vocabulary — see vocabulary
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