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treasure chest en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A chest filled with treasure, especially one used by pirates, etc.
2. (metonymically) A treasury, especially a state or royal treasury.
   • When Anglo-Saxon coins left England for Scandinavia they could, hypothetically, have been withdrawn from a royal treasure-chest replenished from tolls and taxes collected nationwide. 2006, D. M. Metcalf, “Inflows of Anglo-Saxon and German coins into the Northern lands c. 997–1024: discerning the patterns”, in Barrie Cook, Gareth Williams, editors, Coinage and History in the North Sea World, c. AD 500–1250, →ISBN, page 364:
   • They acted the part of a sponge for the Royal Treasury, they gathered up all the floating money of the country, to be squeezed from time to time into the king’s treasure-chest […] 1892, Joseph Jacobs, “Notes on the Jews of England under the Angevin Kings”, in The Jewish Quarterly Review, volume 4, page 634:
   • The visitors pour upward of $60,000 into the state’s treasure chest. 1977, Richard Hyatt, The Carters of Plains, page 103:
3. (figuratively) Any source of something valuable or beautiful.
   • a treasure chest of poems

Forms

Synonyms

treasure trove · gold mine

Translations (28)

hu kincsesláda (chest filled with treasure) · af skatkis (chest filled with treasure) · sv skattkista (chest filled with treasure) · sv skattkista (royal treasury) · ca cofre de tresor (chest filled with treasure) · cmn 寶庫 /宝库 (royal treasury) · ga maoinchiste (chest filled with treasure) · cmn 財寶箱 /财宝箱 (chest filled with treasure) · de Schatzkiste (chest filled with treasure) · da skattekiste (chest filled with treasure) · eo trezorkofro (chest filled with treasure) · fr coffre au trésor (chest filled with treasure) · it cofano di tesoro (chest filled with treasure) · fi aarrearkku (chest filled with treasure) · la arca thēsaurī (chest filled with treasure) · nl schatkist (royal treasury) · fi aarrekirstu (royal treasury) · pt cofre de tesoro (chest filled with treasure) · ru сунду́к сокро́вищ (chest filled with treasure) · ru сокро́вищница (royal treasury) · de Schatztruhe (royal treasury) · nl schatkist (chest filled with treasure) · cmn 百寶箱 /百宝箱 (chest filled with treasure) · es cofre del tesoro (chest filled with treasure) · tr hazine sandığı (chest filled with treasure) · ja 宝箱 (chest filled with treasure) · pt baú de tesoro (chest filled with treasure) · ga maoinchiste (royal treasury)