treasure. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

treasure

SYLLABICATION:	treas·ure
PRONUNCIATION:	trzhr
NOUN:	1. Accumulated or stored wealth in the form of money, jewels, or other valuables. 2. Valuable or precious possessions of any kind. 3. One considered especially precious or valuable.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: treas·ured, treas·ur·ing, treas·ures 1. To keep or regard as precious; value highly. See synonyms at appreciate. 2. To accumulate and store away, as for future use.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English tresure, from Old French tresor, from Latin thsaurus, from Greek thsauros.
OTHER FORMS:	treasur·a·ble —ADJECTIVE


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