CORNUCOPIAS Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

cornucopias

noun

plural of cornucopia

as in repositories

an abundant source even to the computer-addicted children, the old-fashioned toy chest was a cornucopia of delights

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something shaped like a hollow cone and used as a container a cornucopia filled with fruits and vegetables in celebration of the harvest

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Recent Examples of cornucopias The Sagrada Familia fuses the universal language of nature — trees, birds, reptiles, cornucopias of fruit — with scenes from Christ's life. — ABC News, 9 June 2026 Come summer, colorful cornucopias of tomatoes, okra, squash, peppers, and more, are ripe for the picking. — Nellah Bailey McGough, Southern Living, 22 May 2026

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Noun

Hospitals are major repositories of addictive substances that can also be crucial medical treatments.

— Alexandra Byrne, STAT, 25 Aug. 2026
This may mean that information on the capabilities and limitations of updates are delivered to all users via YouTube–like tutorials and new, highly effective AI prompts are shared and stored via GitHub-like knowledge repositories.

— Emelia S. Probasco, Foreign Affairs, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of repositories

Noun

More than 900,000 people have been displaced, while the region’s gold mines draw workers from a wide area.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 28 Aug. 2026
The governor said armed groups could be using the fires to distract law enforcement from a strategic area where criminal groups profit from gold mines.

— ABC News, ABC News, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of gold mines

Noun

Crews can reload its launch tubes after firing, allowing the same hardware to support multiple training events.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026
Its skyline is dominated by towering smokestacks, hulking arrays of metal tubes and bright flames erupting from flares at petrochemical plants in the global plastics supply chain.

— Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of tubes

Noun

American forces targeted two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island on Sunday, reportedly killing three, saying that Tehran intended to launch rockets carrying sea mines into the Hormuz Strait.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 1 Sep. 2026
Iran however said a supertanker that had caught fire over the weekend had struck two naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz, bringing it to a halt.

— Jane Arraf, NPR, 31 Aug. 2026

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