CORNUCOPIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does cornucopia mean?
• CORNUCOPIA (noun)
The noun CORNUCOPIA has 2 senses:
1. a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
2. the property of being extremely abundant
Familiarity information: CORNUCOPIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• CORNUCOPIA (noun)
Meaning:
A goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
cornucopia; horn of plenty
Hypernyms ("cornucopia" is a kind of...):
symbol; symbolic representation; symbolisation; symbolization (something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible)
Meaning:
The property of being extremely abundant
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
profuseness; profusion; richness; cornucopia
Context examples:
the profusion of detail / the idiomatic richness of English
Hypernyms ("cornucopia" is a kind of...):
abundance; copiousness; teemingness (the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cornucopia"):
overgrowth (a profusion of growth on or over something else)
greenness; verdancy; verdure (the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation)
wilderness (a bewildering profusion)
