Synonyms for treasure
ˈtrɛʒ ərtrea·sure

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:3.0 / 3 votes

1. treasure

   To cherish is both to hold dear and to treat as dear. Mere unexpressed esteem would not be cherishing. In the marriage vow, "to love, honor, and cherish," the word cherish implies all that each can do by love and tenderness for the welfare and happiness of the other, as by support, protection, care in sickness, comfort in sorrow, sympathy, and help of every kind. To nurse is to tend the helpless or feeble, as infants, or the sick or wounded. To nourish is strictly to sustain and build up by food; to nurture includes careful mental and spiritual training, with something of love and tenderness; to foster is simply to maintain and care for, to bring up; a foster-child will be nourished, but may not be as tenderly nurtured or as lovingly cherished as if one's own. In the figurative sense, the opinion one cherishes he holds, not with mere cold conviction, but with loving devotion.

   See synonyms for ABANDON; CHASTEN.

   Synonyms:
   cheer, cherish, cling to, comfort, encourage, entertain, foster, harbor, hold dear, nourish, nurse, nurture, protect, shelter, value

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 3 votes

1. treasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   jewel, store, valuable, cash, bullion, accumulation, abundance, stock, wealth, riches, hoard, gem, paragon, model

   Antonyms:
   trash, offal, refuse, scum, dregs, dirt

2. treasureverb

   Synonyms:
   hoard, accumulate, save, value, enshrine, idolize

   Antonyms:
   scatter, squander, dissipate, disregard, disesteem, prostitute, waste, betray

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:3.0 / 6 votes

1. treasure, hoarded wealthnoun

   accumulated wealth in the form of money or jewels etc.

   "the pirates hid their treasure on a small island in the West Indies"

   Synonyms:
   hoarded wealth, gem

2. gem, treasurenoun

   art highly prized for its beauty or perfection

   Synonyms:
   muffin, gemstone, precious stone, stone, gem, jewel, hoarded wealth

3. treasurenoun

   any possession that is highly valued by its owner

   "the children returned from the seashore with their shells and other treasures"

   Synonyms:
   hoarded wealth, gem

4. treasureverb

   a collection of precious things

   "the trunk held all her meager treasures"

   Synonyms:
   hoarded wealth, gem

5. prize, value, treasure, appreciateverb

   hold dear

   "I prize these old photographs"

   Synonyms:
   value, apprise, appreciate, assess, apprize, hold dear, care for, respect, appraise, esteem, pry, prize, cherish, rate, take account, measure, evaluate, jimmy, lever, revalue, prise, valuate

6. care for, cherish, hold dear, treasureverb

   be fond of; be attached to

   Synonyms:
   prize, value, cherish, appreciate, treat, care for, hold dear

Matched Categories

1. • Art
   • Possession
   • Wealth

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. treasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   money (hoarded up), funds, cash, wealth

2. treasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   stock, store, reserve

3. treasurenoun

   Synonyms:
   precious thing, thing of great value

4. treasureverb

   Synonyms:
   hoard, store, garner, save, husband, lay in, lay by, lay up, treasure up

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:4.5 / 2 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "treasure":

   treasury, crf, treasures, cherish, trésor, tesoro, honey, treasuring, wealth, sweetheart, sweetie, treasured, po, cherishing, cherishes, precious, darling, hoard, jewel

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1. Representative Diego Ibanez:

   Keep in mind that they've been looking for this treasure for 20 years and still haven't found it, there's no indication that this new bedrock excavation is going to bear fruit. We're talking about causing irreparable geological damage. There is simply no justification for that.

2. A.W. Tozer:

   As base a thing as money often is, yet it can be transmuted into everlasting treasure. It can be converted into food for the hungry and clothing for the poor. Any temporal possession can be turned into everlasting wealth. Whatever is given to Christ is immediately touched with immortality. (A.W. Tozer)

3. Francis of Assisi:

   Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

4. President Barack Obama:

   Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months, we know the consequences of that choice, and what it cost us in blood and treasure.

5. George Cox:

   I consider Mr. Miranda a national treasure at this point, i am ecstatic about what( Miranda) has done. Do I understand hip-hop ? No ! It's not for my generation. The point is young people do.