billboard, hoarding
(noun) large outdoor signboard
Source: WordNet® 3.1
hoarding (plural hoardings)
(UK) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public.
A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them.
(chiefly, British) A billboard.
See hoard
hoarding (uncountable)
a behavior where people or animals accumulate food or other items
an anxiety disorder, of people who experience feelings of anxiety or discomfort about discarding unneeded items
Synonyms: compulsive hoarding, hoarding disorder
hoarding
present participle of hoard
• decluttering
Source: Wiktionary
Hoard"ing, n. Etym: [From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hürde; akin to E. hurdle. sq. root16. See Hurdle.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.
2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin. Tyndall.
Hoard, n.
Definition: See Hoarding, 2. Smart.
Hoard, n. Etym: [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G. hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See Hide to conceal.]
Definition: A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money.
Hoard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarding.] Etym: [AS. hordian.]
Definition: To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating; as, to hoard grain.
Hoard, v. i.
Definition: To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
