trove

noun

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2
: a valuable collection : treasure
also : haul, collection

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More than eight hundred artifacts dating to the Iron Age have been discovered in England, comprising one of the largest such troves ever found in the UK. News Desk, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2025 Change does not come quickly at the Frick, which opened in 1935 as a house museum for the holdings of Henry Clay Frick, an industrialist who amassed a trove of first-class European paintings. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 26 Mar. 2025 Greenland is strategically located in the Atlantic Ocean between the U.S., Russia, and China, and contains a trove of natural resources—minerals, oil, and natural gas—that is largely untapped. Simmone Shah, TIME, 25 Mar. 2025 The trove is vast, consisting of data on 14 million customers’ ancestry, plus family traits and potential health risks. Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trove

Word History

Etymology

short for treasure trove

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of trove was in 1888

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“Trove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trove. Accessed 3 Apr. 2025.

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