trove

noun

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: a valuable collection : treasure
also : haul, collection

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Morrison’s detectives rappelled down from a helicopter and discovered the remains among a trove of evidence. Holly Yan, CNN Money, 19 Sep. 2025 For instance, there’s my colleague Steve Jurvetson, who got his MBA at Stanford in 1995, and now runs Future Ventures, a space and technology venture fund, and has a trove of space artifacts in his collection. John Werner, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025 The lawsuit was for a time affected by a scandal involving McNamara over the discovery in November 2023 of a trove of racist text messages sent between him and an active SJPD officer and a separate former officer. Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025 The notes surfaced in a trove of more than 100 emails between the two friends, obtained by Bloomberg News. Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for trove

Word History

Etymology

short for treasure trove

First Known Use

1888, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of trove was in 1888

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“Trove.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trove. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.

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