Wordhoard

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Vocabulary; the totality of words of a language or a person.

    "Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations."

  2. 2
    Thesaurus.

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"Wordiness is not usually considered a virtue any more than impurity is; but words are the wealth of English, and the riches of its word-hoard are only paralleled by the riches of the Anglo-American nations."

Etymology

A modern revival of Old English wordhord (“treasury of words”). Compare Dutch woordenschat, German Wortschatz. By surface analysis, word + hoard.

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