treasure house

English

Alternative forms

  • treasurehouse, treasure-house

Etymology

From Middle English tresour-hous, equivalent to treasure +‎ house.

Noun

treasure house (plural treasure houses)

  1. A treasury.
  2. A building where valuable things are stored.
  3. (figurative) A collection of (usually intangible) valuable things.
    • 1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
      Much of this work of renewal or maintenance, found its way into the works via the outdoor department, and constituted a veritable treasure house of experience in all classes of plant and machinery.
    • 1994, Simcha Paull Raphael, Jewish Views of the Afterlife, page 357:
      Our investigation of the vast treasure house of Jewish sacred texts reveals how Judaism's varied and diverse conceptions of an individual afterlife experience developed progressively, from the sixth century B.C.E. onward.
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