Crossword clues for cornucopia
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cornucopia \Cor`nu*co"pi*a\ (k[^o]r`n[-u]*k[=o]"p[i^]*[.a]), n.; pl. Cornucopias (-[.a]z). [L. cornu copiae horn of plenty. See Horn, and Copious.]
The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.
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pl. (Bot.) A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling the cornucopia in form.
Note: Some writers maintain that this word should be written, in the singular, cornu copi[ae], and in the plural, cornua copi[ae].
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context Greek mythology English) A goat's horn endlessly overflowing with fruit, flowers and grain; or full of whatever its owner wanted. 2 A hollow horn- or cone-shaped object, filled with edible or useful things. 3 An abundance or plentiful supply.
WordNet
n. the property of being extremely abundant [syn: profusion, profuseness, richness]
Wikipedia
The cornucopia (from Latin cornu copiae) or horn of plenty is a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers or nuts. The horn originates from classical antiquity, it has continued as a symbol in Western art, and it is particularly associated with the Thanksgiving holiday in North America.
A cornucopia is a horn or horn-shaped basket full of fruit. It may also refer to:
Places:
- Cornucopia (Middletown, Delaware), listed on the National Register of Historic Places in New Castle County, Delaware
- Cornucopia, Oregon
- Cornucopia, Wisconsin
Music:
- Cornucopia (album) an album by jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie
- "Cornucopia" (song), song by Black Sabbath from their 1972 album Black Sabbath Vol. 4
- Cornucopia, defunct Belgian hardcore punk band from the nineties
- Cornucopia, second single from the album Harakiri by Serj Tankian
- Cornucopia, krautrock band from Germany
Other:
- "Cornucopia" (magazine)", magazine about Turkish culture
- Cornucopia, the fourth add-on to the card game Dominion
- Cornucopia Institute, a non-profit organization in Cornucopia, Wisconsin focused on small-scale farming.
- Teatro da Cornucópia, theatre company in Lisbon
Cornucopia is a magazine about Turkish culture, art and history, published jointly in the United Kingdom and Turkey.
Cornucopia is an album by American jazz trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie featuring performances of popular songs recorded in 1969 and originally released on the Solid State label.
Cornucopia, also known as the John and Mary Price Farm, is a historic home and farm located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. The house was built about 1845, and is a 2 1/2-story, five bay "L"-shaped frame dwelling with a gable roof in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It has a 1 1/2-story wing and features a tetra-style verandah on brick piers. Also on the property are the contributing meat/dairy house, crib barn, hay barn and cow barn attached by an implement shed, three poultry sheds, and an implement shed with a shop and wagon shed.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.
Usage examples of "cornucopia".
By now somewhat numbed by the luxurious trappings that were the norm for the Neverland Hotel, Ray paid scant attention to the dazzling furnishings and the cornucopia of exquisitely rendered art pieces and readied himself to focus on his initial encounter with the great and powerful Harrison Webster.
May the Vesica Piscis symbol be a doorway filled with a cornucopia of gifts for each person who uses it.
Murray has the quixotic ability to disregard the banal surface of television and, with all the innocence of a formalist semiotician, to discover a cornucopia of aesthetic information in its organization.
As Tom watched, two Corsicans strung speaker wire for the two amplified subbass speakers that from above could create a cornucopia of wall-vibrating sounds running the gamut from the window-rattling noise of about-to-land military aircraft to the ominous rumble of close-by thunder.
It is as rich and fecund as the cornucopia, that fabulous horn of the goat Amalthea which suckled Zeus, perpetually overflowing with flowers, fruit, and who knows what.
The overhead light fixtures and wall sconces were shaped like gilded cherubs armed with cornucopias.
Jewish stars, Masonic seals, Templar crosses, cornucopias, pyramids, astrological signs, plants, vegetables, pentacles, and roses.
The cornucopia or "horn of plenty" was a tribute to Baphomet's fertility and dated back to Zeus being suckled by a goat whose horn broke off and magically filled with fruit.
The store was a multicolored cornucopia of dresses and sweaters, bras and stockings, high-heeled shoes and boleros.
From all directions poured mothers holding colored cornucopias and drawing screaming or model children after them.
Their mothers pressed against the wall opposite the window front, clutching in their arms the colored cornucopias covered with tissue paper that were traditional on the first day of school.
On the blackboard (I said) which provided the photographer with the traditional background for postcard-size pictures of six-year-old boys with knapsacks and cornucopias, these words were inscribed: My First School Day.
I have shaped pieces of string into Kashubian potato fields and Norman pastures, and peopled the resulting landscape, which I call Europe for short, with such figures as post office defenders, grocers, people on rostrums, people at the foot of the rostrums, schoolboys with cornucopias, expiring museum attendants, juvenile delinquents preparing for Christmas, Polish cavalrymen at sunset, ants that make history.
And the Eschaton had given them gifts: cornucopias, robot factories able to produce any designated goods to order, given enough time, energy, and raw materials.
Gallant, a dark-faced, cynical-looking man with clever, malicious eyes, and one of those large cornucopias of women with avid blue stares.