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Definition of trove in English: trovenoun trəʊvtroʊv A store of valuable or delightful things. 有价值(或令人喜爱)的藏品 the cellar contained a trove of rare wines Example sentencesExamples - A long-sought trove of rare Beatles material reportedly found last month by a British tourist remained lost, a leading Beatles expert said.
- I admit that I don't often go hunting for such troves - our house has only so much room to store them.
- The find revealed a trove of fabulous treasures in gold and precious stones that showed the wealth and craftsmanship of the Pharaonic court
- Reading my sister's letters was a strangely voyeuristic pleasure, and I imagined a reader could feel that way, as if he'd discovered a trove of letters in the floor of an old house.
- The legendary Faberge created a trove of treasures for the Tsars that endure as priceless examples of the craftsman's art.
- The walls around flicker with refractions from the gem-encrusted trove that is the Iranian Crown Jewels.
- The book has been a manual for artists and a trove for scholars - and a refined erotic peepshow - since its first printing in 1499.
- A trove of compositions was found in a private collection and now his most famous, The Four Seasons, is a favourite.
- They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on.
- Today, these records offer troves of treasures to museum curators, anthropologists, and historians of science.
- In short, there is a rich trove of primary source material from which to work.
- Sure, many of the heavyweights featured in the series are no longer around, but the BBC managed to unearth a trove of old footage, much of which had not been seen previously by a British audience.
- The knights had amassed a large trove of wealth over the years which led them to be accredited with the invention of modern banking.
- The rents, explicit and implicit, would then become part of the public troves.
- Though not impressive in its visual presentation, the site is a trove of interesting material on world civilization.
- The archipelago is a trove of biological treasures.
- Be warned: a day in this museum can leave you wondering whether even a week would be enough to appreciate the trove of sublime art and its arcane technologies of the after-life.
- The two shows dug deep into archival troves and directed viewers and art historians toward an expansion of both sources and resources, resurrecting artists and specific works from historical oblivion.
- The site also houses a trove of audio and video clips, including a recording of William Gladstone in 1888.
- To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa.
OriginLate 19th century: from treasure trove. treasure from Middle English: This came through Old French from Greek thēsauros ‘treasure, store, storehouse’, also the source of thesaurus. A treasure trove (Late Middle English) is now a collection of valuable or pleasing things that is found unexpectedly, but it originally referred to valuables of unknown ownership that were found hidden, which were the property of the Crown. The term came from Anglo-Norman French tresor trové meaning literally ‘found treasure’.
Rhymesbehove, clove, cove, dove, drove, fauve, grove, interwove, Jove, mauve, rove, shrove, stove, strove, wove Definition of trove in US English: trovenountrōvtroʊv A store of valuable or delightful things. 有价值(或令人喜爱)的藏品 the museum's trove of antique treasure 博物馆的古董收藏。 Example sentencesExamples - The book has been a manual for artists and a trove for scholars - and a refined erotic peepshow - since its first printing in 1499.
- The knights had amassed a large trove of wealth over the years which led them to be accredited with the invention of modern banking.
- Though not impressive in its visual presentation, the site is a trove of interesting material on world civilization.
- I admit that I don't often go hunting for such troves - our house has only so much room to store them.
- The walls around flicker with refractions from the gem-encrusted trove that is the Iranian Crown Jewels.
- The rents, explicit and implicit, would then become part of the public troves.
- The site also houses a trove of audio and video clips, including a recording of William Gladstone in 1888.
- The legendary Faberge created a trove of treasures for the Tsars that endure as priceless examples of the craftsman's art.
- Reading my sister's letters was a strangely voyeuristic pleasure, and I imagined a reader could feel that way, as if he'd discovered a trove of letters in the floor of an old house.
- A trove of compositions was found in a private collection and now his most famous, The Four Seasons, is a favourite.
- A long-sought trove of rare Beatles material reportedly found last month by a British tourist remained lost, a leading Beatles expert said.
- The two shows dug deep into archival troves and directed viewers and art historians toward an expansion of both sources and resources, resurrecting artists and specific works from historical oblivion.
- The find revealed a trove of fabulous treasures in gold and precious stones that showed the wealth and craftsmanship of the Pharaonic court
- The archipelago is a trove of biological treasures.
- They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on.
- To many paleoanthropologists, Chad is somewhat off the beaten path for hominid evolution, when compared with the famous fossil troves of southern and eastern Africa.
- Be warned: a day in this museum can leave you wondering whether even a week would be enough to appreciate the trove of sublime art and its arcane technologies of the after-life.
- In short, there is a rich trove of primary source material from which to work.
- Today, these records offer troves of treasures to museum curators, anthropologists, and historians of science.
- Sure, many of the heavyweights featured in the series are no longer around, but the BBC managed to unearth a trove of old footage, much of which had not been seen previously by a British audience.
OriginLate 19th century: from treasure trove. |