Cornucopia

A cornucopia is a horn-shaped container overflowing with fruits, vegetables, and flowers, symbolizing abundance and plenty.

The image derives from Greek mythology, where the horn of a goat that nursed the infant Zeus became an inexhaustible source of nourishment.

Today cornucopias appear commonly as Thanksgiving decorations and harvest festival centerpieces.

Figuratively, any abundant supply or collection may be called a cornucopia: The buffet offered a cornucopia of desserts.

symbol

abundance

Ample supply, overflowing

decoration · prosperity · fertility · mythology · emblem · motif · blessing · bounty · gratitude · celebration

abundance

overflow

Exceed capacity and spill

  • plentySufficient quantity, and then some
  • profusionExtravagant amount present
  • wealthAbundance of valuable resources

riches · surplus · excess · treasure · bounty · lavishness · opulence · generosity · fullness · plentifulness

harvest

fruit

Edible plant ovary

grapes · apples · pumpkins · squash · gourds · produce · crops · orchard · vineyard · gathering

mythology

Zeus

Greek sky god

  • goatHorned, bearded livestock
  • GreekOf Athenian origin
  • HeraclesGreek demigod, twelve labors

Fortuna · divine · sacred · nymph · legend · origin · classical · ancient · Roman · goddess

Categories
Opposites
abundance vs. scarcity

Cornucopiascarcity

Insufficiency of something needed

dearth · shortage · lack · paucity · deficiency

prosperity vs. deprivation

Cornucopiadeprivation

State of lacking necessities

poverty · destitution · impoverishment · penury · hardship

fullness vs. emptiness

Cornucopiaemptiness

Absence of substance

void · vacuum · hollow · vacancy · blank

Family

corn, cornea, corneal, corner, corners, cornered, cornering, cornet, cornets

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