Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Greek Mythology The horn of the goat that suckled Zeus, which broke off and became filled with fruit. In folklore, it became full of whatever its owner desired.
- noun A representation of a goat's horn overflowing with fruit, flowers, and grain, signifying prosperity.
- noun A cone-shaped ornament or receptacle.
- noun An overflowing store; an abundance.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In classical antiquity, the horn of plenty (which see, under
horn ). - noun Hence A horn-shaped or conical vessel or receptacle; especially, such a vessel of paper or other material, filled or to be filled with nuts or sweetmeats.
- noun [capitalized] [NL.] A genus of grasses whose spikes resemble the cornucopia in form.
- noun An extension of the choroid plexus into each lateral recess of the fourth ventricle of the brain.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Greek mythology A
goat 'shorn endlessly overflowing withfruit ,flowers andgrain ; or full of whatever its owner wanted. - noun A hollow horn- or
cone -shaped object, filled with edible or useful things. - noun An
abundance or plentiful supply.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
- noun the property of being extremely abundant
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A possible precursor to the holy grail, the cornucopia is always a sign of abundance.
Five Things To Be Grateful For: the Cornucopia List « Colleen Anderson 2010
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The word "cornucopia" is overused, but if anything qualifies, it's Christie's edit of the notorious Taylor hoard.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Hannah Betts 2011
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This cornucopia is providing an unexpected boost to President Barack Obama's drive to double exports by 2015.
Amber waves of exports Ezra Klein 2010
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The website, Christianet. com, can only be described as a cornucopia of naked pandering of Christianity for profit and a brazen marketing of faith-based propaganda.
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The website, Christianet. com, can only be described as a cornucopia of naked pandering of Christianity for profit and a brazen marketing of faith-based propaganda.
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In modern depiction, the cornucopia is a hollow, horn-shaped wicker basket typically filled with various kinds of festive fruit and vegetables.
Think Progress » Hume: Pelosi’s Iraq Position May Put Her ‘At Odds With Her Own Majority’ 2006
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"And the cornucopia is a pointed reference to the wealth she was bringing to the Easton family?"
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"And the cornucopia is a pointed reference to the wealth she was bringing to the Easton family?"
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The horizontal portion extends transversely across the inferior peduncle, below the striæ medullares, and roofs in the lower and posterior part of the lateral recess; it is attached by its lower margin to the inferior peduncle, and partly encloses the choroid plexus, which, however, projects beyond it like a cluster of grapes; and hence this part of the tænia has been termed the cornucopia (Bochdalek).
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FakeAPStylebook: A cornucopia is a horn-shaped basket filled with food such as fresh corn and wild ucopias.
RVABlogs 2009
treeseed commented on the word cornucopia
a town in Wisconsin, USA
February 26, 2008
bilby commented on the word cornucopia
"For them, Iraq has been war as cornucopia, war as a consumer's paradise. Arguably, on a per-soldier basis, no military has ever occupied a country with a bigger baggage train. On taking Iraq, they promptly began constructing a series of gigantic military bases, American ziggurats meant to outlast them. These were full-scale 'American towns,' well guarded, 15-20 miles around, with multiple PXes, fitness clubs, brand fast-food outlets, traffic lights, the works. (This, in a country where, for years after the invasion, nothing worked.)"
- Tom Engelhardt, 'Stuff Happens: The Pentagon's Argument of Last Resort on Iraq', 20 Nov 2008.
November 21, 2008
jwjarvis commented on the word cornucopia
The Oxford Companion to the English Language is a thousand-page cornucopia covering virtually every aspect of the English language
May 27, 2010