different between adore vs treasure

English

Etymology

From Middle English *adoren, aouren, from Old French adorer, aorer, from Latin ad?r?, from ad (“to”) + ?r? (“I speak”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?dô?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (General American) enPR: ?dôr?, IPA^(key): /??d??/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: ?d?r?, IPA^(key): /??do(?)?/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /??do??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Hyphenation: adore

Verb

adore (third-person singular simple present adores, present participle adoring, simple past and past participle adored)

1. To worship.
   • c. 1605, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act I, Scene 4,^[1]

     Now, gods that we adore, whereof comes this?

   • 1758, Tobias Smollett, A Complete History of England, London: James Rivington and James Fletcher, 3rd edition, Volume 6, Book 8, “William III,” p. 29,^[2]

     [James] was met at the castle-gate by a procession of […] bishops and priests in their pontificals, bearing the host, which he publicly adored.

   • 1852, Frederick Oakeley (translator), “O Come, All Ye Faithful” in Francis H. Murray, A Hymnal for Use in the English Church,^[3]

     Come and behold him

     Born the King of Angels:

     O come, let us adore Him,

     Christ the Lord.

   Antonym: disdain

2. To love with one's entire heart and soul; regard with deep respect and affection.
   • 1849, Thomas Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James II, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume I, Chapter 5, p. 388,^[4]

     The great mass of the population abhorred Popery and adored Monmouth.

   Antonym: disdain

3. To be very fond of.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

4. (obsolete) To adorn.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 4, Canto 11, p. ,^[5]

     […] and likewise on her hed

     A Chapelet of sundry flowers she wore,

     From vnder which the deawy humour shed,

     Did tricle downe her haire, like to the hore

     Congealed litle drops, which doe the morne adore.

   Antonym: disdain

Derived terms

Related terms

• adorable
• adoration

Translations

Anagrams

• E-road, O'Dare, Roade, dorea, oared, oread

Basque

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.do.?e/

Noun

adore

1. energy
2. courage

Declension

Synonyms

• kemen

Derived terms

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.d??/
• Rhymes: -??

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of adorer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorer
3. second-person singular imperative of adorer

Anagrams

• éroda

Galician

Verb

adore

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of adorar

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French adorer (“worship, adore”).

Verb

adore

1. adore
2. worship

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [?äd????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?a.do.re/, [???d????]
• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a?do?.re/, [ä?d?o???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a?do.re/, [??d?????]

Noun

adore or ad?re n

1. ablative singular of ador

Portuguese

Verb

adore

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of adorar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of adorar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of adorar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of adorar

Romanian

Verb

adore

1. third-person singular/third-person plural present subjunctive of adora

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a?do?e/, [a?ð?o.?e]

Verb

adore

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of adorar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of adorar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of adorar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of adorar.

English

Alternative forms

• treasuer (chiefly archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English tresour, from Old French tresor (“treasury”), from Latin th?saurus (“treasure”), from Ancient Greek ???????? (th?saurós, “treasure house”). Displaced native Middle English schat. Doublet of thesaurus.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t????/, /?t??????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t????/
• Hyphenation: treas?ure
• Rhymes: -???(?)

Noun

treasure (countable and uncountable, plural treasures)

1. (uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.
2. (countable) Anything greatly valued.

   • Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me.

   • 1681, Nahum Tate, The History of King Lear

     I found the whole to answer your Account of it, a Heap of Jewels, unstrung and unpolisht; yet so dazling in their Disorder, that I soon perceiv'd I had seiz'd a Treasure.

   • 1946, Ernest Tubb, Filipino Baby

     She's my Filipino baby she's my treasure and my pet

     Her teeth are bright and pearly and her hair is black as jet

3. (countable) A term of endearment.
   • 1922, Francis Rufus Bellamy, A Flash of Gold

     "Hello, Treasure," he said without turning round. For a second she hesitated, standing in the soft light of the lamp, the deep blue of the rug making a background for her, the black fur collar of her coat framing the vivid beauty of her face.

Related terms

• treasury

Translations

Verb

treasure (third-person singular simple present treasures, present participle treasuring, simple past and past participle treasured)

1. (transitive, of a person or thing) To consider to be precious; to value highly.

   Oh, this ring is beautiful! I’ll treasure it forever.

   • 1838, Eliza Cook, "The Old Armchair", in Melania and other Poems

     I LOVE it, I love it ; and who shall dare

     To chide me for loving that old Arm-chair ?

     I've treasured it long as a sainted prize ;

     I've bedewed it with tears, and embalmed it with sighs.

2. (transitive) To store or stow in a safe place.
   • 1825, Walter Scott, The Talisman

     The rose-buds, withered as they were, were still treasured under his cuirass, and nearest to his heart.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To enrich.

Synonyms

• (to consider to be precious): cherish

Antonyms

• (to consider to be precious): despise

Translations

Derived terms

Anagrams

• austerer, treasuer