treasure

1. (literally, countable and uncountable) A collection of valuable things; accumulated wealth; a stock of money, jewels, etc.Examples: "It seems there was a worm that slept upon a pile of treasure, which it had zealously heaped up under a stone bluff."; ""Now," resumed Silver, "here it is. You give us the chart to get the treasure by, and drop shooting poor seamen and stoving of their heads in while asleep. You do that, and we'll offer you a choice. Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore."countableliterallyuncountable

2. (figuratively, countable) Anything greatly valued.Examples: "Ye shall be peculiar treasure unto me."; "You have ſent me a Treaſure, and I vvould not ſhare time to tell you ſo, till I had ſomevvhat ſatisfied the thirſt I had to drink dovvn many of thoſe Excellent Sermons, vvhich I have ſo long deſired: […]"; "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."countablefiguratively

3. (figuratively, countable) Anything greatly valued.Examples: ""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."countablefigurativelyuncountable

4. (figuratively, countable) Anything greatly valued.countableeuphemisticfigurativelyin-pluralliteraryuncountable