cornucopia

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Scrabble points
16
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ˌkɔː.njəˈkəʊ.pi.ə/ (UK)
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/ˌkɔː.njəˈkəʊ.pi.ə/ (UK) · /ˌkɔɹ.nəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/ (US) · /ˌkɔɹ.njəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/ (US)

Definition of cornucopia

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (Greek, countable, uncountable)A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.
    “Device, an anchor held by a hand from the clouds: behind the anchor are a kind of brackets, in the form of cornucopiæ, croſſed; […]”
    “It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.”
    “So far as Swedenborg’s elucidation extends, it is comprised in seven groupings of this family; and, possibly, the Hebraic forms of the several names which are included in them, may at some future period, like so many cornucopiæ of wisdom, yield abundance of precious fruit to the Biblical student.”
    “A head of Trajan, between two cornucopiæ, under which is a winged foot, with a caduceus and a dolphin.”
    “On these the details of the cornucopiae resemble those familiar in the Hellenistic world: from the horn, filleted and filled to overflowing with bunches of grapes, […]”
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noun

  1. (Greek, countable, uncountable)A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted: or, an image of a such a horn, either in two or three dimensions.
    “Device, an anchor held by a hand from the clouds: behind the anchor are a kind of brackets, in the form of cornucopiæ, croſſed; […]”
    “It soon came: as they were on their way to a transparency of their majesties, not a little larger than life—with Bellona, in a very handsome helmet, on one side, and Peace, with a cornucopia and a full blown wreath of roses, on the other—the path was interrupted by a little knot of gentlemen.”
    “So far as Swedenborg’s elucidation extends, it is comprised in seven groupings of this family; and, possibly, the Hebraic forms of the several names which are included in them, may at some future period, like so many cornucopiæ of wisdom, yield abundance of precious fruit to the Biblical student.”
    “A head of Trajan, between two cornucopiæ, under which is a winged foot, with a caduceus and a dolphin.”
    “On these the details of the cornucopiae resemble those familiar in the Hellenistic world: from the horn, filleted and filled to overflowing with bunches of grapes, […]”
  2. (countable, uncountable)A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things.
  3. (countable, uncountable)An abundance or plentiful supply.
    “The store provided a veritable cornucopia of modern gadgets.”
    “These days, thanks to the cornucopia of online dance classes and tutorials, you can almost imagine yourself to be a dancer.”
    “The bulk of the benefits were flowing to China, which became the low-cost producer for the developed world, and to consumers in advanced economies whose shops offered a cornucopia of cheaper goods.”
    “Despite its sparse syntax, the expressiveness and flexibility of the λ-calculus make it a cornucopia of logic and mathematics. The Lambda Calculus (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cornūcōpia.

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