Speech is a unique gift to man from God. The variety and richness of the narrator’s speech speaks of his literacy and well-readness. Such a monologue is interesting to listen to and easy to remember. To say so, you need to train a lot, speaking publicly. But not a single speech will be vivid and memorable with a meager vocabulary.
To expand your vocabulary, you need to read a lot not only new and popular books, but also works of ancient Russian literature. After all, she is the progenitor of the modern Russian language.
The origin of the token
Abundance is an ancient enough word. It came to us in dark and remote times.
From the Pre-Slavic (formed in the first millennium BC, from which all Slavic languages originated) in the Old Slavic “abundance” appears (in Greek δαΨιλής, ἄφθονος), “abundance” (ἀφθονία). In the pre-Slavic obil 'it is formed from the word form obvil, which in old Slavic means “meander” means “abundance”. Thus, the word "abundance" is a centuries-old history of the token.
The meaning of the word "abundance"
Many lexicographers recorded "abundance" in their dictionaries. For example, it is in the sources of Brockhaus and Efron, V. I. Dahl, D. N. Ushakov, S. I. Ozhegov and A. P. Evgenyeva.
Consider the meaning of the word in chronological order of the appearance of dictionaries "into the world."
The Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language, in a different way the Homeowners Association (1863-1866), Vladimir Dahl explained literally the word "abundance" - this is abundance, excess, contentment and multitude. Dahl also cited an example of the use of a lexeme in a dictionary entry: "There is an abundance of fruits in that land."
The Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (1907) was released, as well as the Homeowners Union, back in the Russian Empire. He interprets the meaning in a completely different way. The dictionary tells the reader that Abundance is the heroine of Greco-Roman mythology, represented in the image of a woman who spills various goods from the cornucopia.
The next dictionary that we will look into is the Explanatory Dictionary of D. N. Ushakov. In his creation, Dmitry Nikolaevich interprets abundance and wealth as synonyms.
Next is S.I.Ozhegov's explanatory dictionary, popular in Soviet times, compiled by a Russian linguist in 1949. His work was based on the dictionary of D. N. Ushakov. Therefore, many readers do not see much difference in the dictionary entries of these sources. So, Ozhegov explains the word we are interested in as complete abundance / abundance, and again in the meaning of “multitude” and “wealth”.
And the last source that we will consider is the Small Academic Dictionary (MAS) edited by A. Evgenyeva. It was compiled by the Institute of the Russian Language of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1957. The first edition of the dictionary in volume resembled the works of Ushakov and Ozhegov. But domestic lexicographers did not stop there and added words there, starting from the time of A.S. Pushkin. Thus, the dictionary today consists of four volumes. So, the explanatory dictionary of the second half of the twentieth century explains the meaning of the word "abundance": 1) a large / huge number of someone or something; 2) wealth or wealth (obsolete).
The cornucopia myth
In the encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, the authors of the dictionary article said that Abundance is a creature of late Greco-Roman mythology in the form of a woman. Let's find out about her!
In the ancient Greek pantheon of gods, Zeus is the main supreme god. The goat Amalfei fed it with her milk in a cave of the island of Crete. Her name means "wealth giver." Zeus survived and became a god, and the goat lost a horn. In gratitude to the goat, the supreme god made her horn a symbol of wealth. Thus, the horn of the Amalfei goat means fertility and prosperity.
Later, the ancient Romans endowed the goddess Abundia, the companion of Ceres (fertility), with a cornucopia. From it she strewed gold. Her image was captured on coins. It is amazing that in her honor the Romans did not erect temples and altars.
There are several myths about the cornucopia. In the Middle Ages, the myth of the Golden Horn was renamed the legend of the Golden Grail.
Conclusion
Abundance is a multitude or a large number of someone / something; prosperity and prosperity.
Synonyms: wealth, abundance, luxury, multitude, etc.
Antonyms: poverty, lack, deficit, need.
Read books, enrich your vocabulary, then in your speech there will be an abundance of comparisons, metaphors and personifications!