land of plenty

Place of abundance

A land of plenty is a place of abundance where resources flow freely and needs are easily met.

The phrase often carries idealistic or mythical overtones—describing paradise, a promised homeland, or the aspirational vision of a prosperous nation: They immigrated seeking a land of plenty.

It can be used ironically when abundance proves illusory or unevenly distributed.

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El Dorado · greener pastures · good life · Garden of Eden · harvest · Arcadia · Elysium · locus amoenus · plenitude · Lotusland · utopia · Goshen · Shangri-La · fruitfulness · bountiful harvest · prosperity · heaven · golden age

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Opposites
abundance vs. scarcity

land of plentyfamine

Severe food shortage

scarcity · wasteland · desert · drought · dearth

prosperity vs. destitution

land of plentyfailed state

Ungovernable nation lacking authority

destitution · squalor · third world · slum · ghetto

paradise vs. wasteland

land of plentywasteland

Uninhabitable barren region

desert · wilderness · dust bowl · hellscape · no man's land

Family

land, plenty, landing, lands, landed, inland, woodland, homeland, farmland

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Timeless · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G