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cornucopia

UK/ˌkɔː.njəˈkəʊ.pi.ə/US/ˌkɔɹ.nəˈkoʊ.pi.ə/
nounC2Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #11,964 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: cornucopias

A cornucopia is an overflowing supply of good things. A cornucopia of fruit.

It is properly a horn spilling produce, and the picture is still there behind the word. A cornucopia of anything means more than could be got through.

Jürg Oliver Straub · CC BY-SA 4.0

Definitions of cornucopia

  1. 1nouncornucopiaAn overflowing supply of good things.C2

    “The market in September was a cornucopia.”

cornucopia is a supply.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    cornūcōpia

  2. English, today

    cornucopia

Borrowed from Latin cornūcōpia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

cornucopia in the wild

  • Pollicipes pollicipes, known as the goose neck barnacle, goose barnacle or leaf barnacle is a species of goose barnacle, also well known under the taxonomic synonym Pollicipes cornucopia.

    Pollicipes pollicipes

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.