lost treasure
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- noun
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tesoro perdido
- During the expedition, the archaeologists uncovered a great deal of lost treasure from the ancient civilization.
- find the lost treasure
- searching for the lost treasure
And so my dad never witnessed any of the, any of the wealth that they had, but grew up hearing about, you know, these lost treasures and everything.
- And so my dad never witnessed any of the, any of the wealth that they had, but grew up hearing about, you know, these lost treasures and everything.
Examples
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Finally, Thomas and his father learn that the caretaker, Mr. Pluto Skinner, has uncovered the lost treasure of Dies Drear and, with the help of his son Mayhew, is trying to protect it from thieves like their neighbor River Lewis Darrow.
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The world is full of lost treasures.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I have found that lost treasure.
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We returned those lost treasures to their owners.
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The lost treasure of the Argonauts.
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What you have before you, ladies and gentlemen... Is the climax of today's adventure The famous lost treasure of the Florida Keys!
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It is sometimes said to be amazing when supposed lost treasures are found and reappear.
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Currently, we are building a story with the 1st Grade about Jungle Explorers searching for the Magical Monkey, and with the 2nd Graders one about Pirates searching for Captain Blagl's lost treasure.
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To explain the plot from there would be to explain the history of a lot of treasure associated with past figures such as Francis Drake, so I'll sum it up: Drake hunts for lost treasure alongside his mentor, aging ladies' man Victor Sullivan, and they are always under fire from a group of people who want to reach the target treasure first.
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The book also said that if the treasure has historical value or is associated with popular culture—and here, lo and behold, the book gave the specific example of Captain Kidd's lost treasure—then the value of the treasure would be greatly enhanced, and so forth.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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1.1
Valuable items like gold or jewels that people keep
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A collection of valuable things or information that someone finds
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4.8
A group of many valuable or interesting items found unexpectedly
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Valuable things hidden underground, like gold or jewels
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Valuable things that someone keeps out of sight so others cannot find them easily
Treasure or valuable objects kept in a secret place
Things like money or jewellery that are worth a lot to someone
How Valuable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and predictably derived from the constituents: 'lost' (unable to be found) + 'treasure' (valuable items) yields 'treasure that is lost or hidden'. This compositional pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows straightforward English noun phrase formation, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
The noun lost treasure comes from images of pirates and explorers hiding a treasure and then the treasure became lost, with only a map or clue left behind. That picture of a hidden chest or sunken gold helps explain why the phrase means 'valuable items that are lost, hidden, or waiting to be found'.