Synonyms of hoards

hoards 1 of 2

noun

plural of hoard

1

as in stashes

a supply stored up and often hidden away

keeps a hoard of empty yogurt containers in his basement workshop for storing whatnots

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stashes
• stockpiles
• stores
• caches
• funds
• deposits
• collections
• treasures
• savings
• provisions
• resources
• coffers
• inventories
• reservoirs
• pools
• harvests
• sinking funds
• reserves
• stocks
• accumulations
• nest eggs
• gatherings
• assemblages
• repertories

2

as in reserves

a collection of things kept available for future use or need

she couldn't find one pencil with an eraser in her entire hoard of pencil stubs

Synonyms & Similar Words

• reserves
• supplies
• deposits
• stores
• caches
• collections
• funds
• banks
• stockpiles
• reservoirs
• budgets
• arsenals
• accumulations
• pools
• nest eggs
• stocks
• armories
• gatherings
• assemblages

hoards

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of hoard

as in stores

to put (something of future use or value) in a safe or secret place

he's been hoarding empty yogurt containers all winter, with the intention of using them to start seedlings in the spring

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stores
• stashes
• treasures
• accumulates
• piles
• collects
• stockpiles
• caches
• deposits
• stows
• saves
• conserves
• acquires
• stacks
• gathers
• keeps
• lays up
• lays in
• preserves
• sets aside
• squirrels (away)
• amasses
• salts away
• lays away
• heaps
• assembles
• lays by
• garners
• husbands
• banks
• puts by
• retains
• scrapes (together)
• coffers
• reserves
• concentrates
• rounds up
• stocks
• buries
• holds
• conceals
• withholds
• secretes
• picks up
• sets by
• ensconces

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ditches
• casts
• dumps
• discards
• consumes
• unloads
• wastes
• flings (off or away)
• spends
• throws out
• throws away
• squanders
• relinquishes
• uses up
• surrenders
• jettisons
• hands out
• blows
• runs through
• lavishes
• exhausts
• dissipates
• hands over
• expends
• depletes
• scatters
• impoverishes
• disperses
• dispels
• misspends
• fritters (away)

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hoards

Noun

These hoards follow similar arrangements. —Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 25 Apr. 2026

Video shared by the department captured hoards of teens running away. —Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 15 Apr. 2026

According to Tillich, instrument requests come in hoards, matching the enormous student population the school serves. —Anya Sesay, jsonline.com, 1 Apr. 2026

These transients have brightnesses in between that of classical novas, triggered when a white dwarf hoards material from a companion star thus sparking a runaway nuclear explosion, and supernovas that mark the death of a massive star and the birth of a black hole or a neutron star. —Robert Lea, Space.com, 22 Jan. 2026

McCarthy, in 2014, speculated there could be other hoards of coins out there. —Justin Pot, Popular Science, 24 Dec. 2025

In that span, the de la Cruz Collection along with several other premier private hoards of art on public exhibit in Miami, helped to wholly redefine the city as a place far more substantial than just a sun’n’fun capital. —Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025

Plus, the brand has been spotted on hoards of celebrities, including Kate Middleton, Reese Witherspoon, and Meghan Markle. —Maggie Horton, PEOPLE, 27 Nov. 2025

The nest hoards of bearded vultures in southern Spain, where the species is extinct, were found to harbor such human artifacts as a crossbow bolt, a slingshot, a wooden lance, and a shoe with an approximate age of 675 years. —Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harpers Magazine, 23 Nov. 2025

Verb

But Netflix, which hoards its user data like gold in Fort Knox, offers a larger lump sum upfront, with no residuals and no performance data released. —Geoff Colvin, Fortune, 13 Mar. 2026

In Pottersville, one man hoards all the financial profits and political power. —Nora Gilbert, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025