copious
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\n \n Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for August 17, 2024 is:\n \n
\n \n\n copious • \\KOH-pee-us\\ • adjective
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Copious is a synonym of abundant and plentiful. It is always used before a noun to describe something very large in amount or number.
\n\n// The pie was served with a copious amount of ice cream.
\n\n// Jacqueline took copious notes during the long lecture and shared them with the rest of her study group.
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\u201cMy colleagues were more than gracious enough to take some time out of their day to taste-test copious amounts of chocolate.\u201d \u2014 Tori Latham, The Robb Report, 10 May 2023
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Despite meaning \u201cabundance,\u201d the Latin word copia has not led to an abundance of words in English; in other words, its descendants are far from copious\u2014at least on the surface. There\u2019s copious, of course, which comes from copia by way of Middle English and has been used since the 14th century, when it first described things\u2014such as farmlands or ore deposits\u2014that produce abundant yields. Then there\u2019s cornucopia, which combines this same root with cornu, meaning \u201chorn,\u201d and refers to an inexhaustible store or abundance of something (as well as to a decorative horn or horn-shaped basket overflowing with produce and used as a symbol of abundance). Finally, there\u2019s the commonplace word copy, used as both noun and verb. That\u2019s all she wrote\u2026 unless you consider the mucho copious amount\u2014nay, cornucopia\u2014of words that start or end with copy, from copycat to photocopy to copypasta.
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