n. 1. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables: search for buried treasure; spending much of the national treasure on armaments. 2. Valuable or precious possessions of any kind. 3. One considered especially precious or valuable: bought several treasures at the estate sale; saw her assistant as a treasure. tr.v. treas·ured, treas·ur·ing, treas·ures 1. To keep or regard as precious; value highly. See Synonyms at appreciate. 2. To accumulate or store away, as for future use: "This same withered and crumbling flower ... Five and fifty years it has been treasured between the leaves of this old volume" (Nathaniel Hawthorne). [Middle English tresure, from Old French tresor, from Latin thēsaurus, from Greek thēsauros.] treasur·a·ble adj. |
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