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🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

宝物

Pronunciation / Transliteration: takaramono

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Treasure/ˈtrɛʒ.ər/
nounverbCEFR B1 (Intermediate)Top #1450 frequency
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"子供たちは庭で秘密の宝物を見つけた。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A quantity of precious metals, gems, or other valuable objects.

    "The divers discovered a sunken ship filled with gold and silver treasure."
As verb
  1. 1

    To keep or store up something as valuable; to cherish or greatly prize something.

    "She will always treasure the memories of her childhood summers by the sea."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Old French 'tresor', which came from the Latin 'thesaurus', meaning a store or treasure. Ultimately, this traces back to the Ancient Greek 'thesauros', meaning a place where something is put for safekeeping or a hoard of precious things.

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