cornucopia

1. 1.

   a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity

   Synonymshorn of plenty

   Broadersymbol
2. 2.

   the property of being extremely abundant

   “the profusion of detail”

   “the idiomatic richness of English”

   Synonymsprofusionprofusenessrichness

   Broaderabundance

   Narrowerovergrowthgreennesswilderness

Other forms of cornucopia

plural

cornucopias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cornucopia

What does cornucopia mean?

cornucopia means "a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cornucopia?

cornucopia has 5 syllables: cor-nu-co-pi-a. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˌkɔɹnəˈkoʊpiə/.

What is another word for cornucopia?

Close synonyms include horn of plenty, profusion, profuseness, richness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cornucopia a common word?

cornucopia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.