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Definition of Cupid
1. Noun. (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros.
2. Noun. A symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow.
Definition of Cupid
1. n . The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
Definition of Cupid
1. Proper noun. (Roman god) : The god of love, son of Venus; usually depicted as a naked, winged boy with bow and arrow. ¹
2. Noun. a putto carrying a bow and arrow, representing Cupid or love ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cupid
1. a naked, winged representation of the Roman god of love [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cupid
Literary usage of Cupid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"cupid MISTAKEN. VENUS whipt cupid t' other day, For having lost his bow and ...
Angry cupid in revenge, (Gods their shapes at pleasure change) In the form ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1849)
"I say, cupid, very convenient for courtship, those cabin stairs in rainy weather.
Eh, cupid ? ... said cupid. " I vosn t not a doin' nothink of the kind. ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey, John Wood Warter (1855)
"As he is running after her and her servant Free Will to detain them, cupid enters
with a white veil on, to protect her; Apostacy struggles with him, ..."
4. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly (1902)
"cupid. It was made of a mans thought, which will neuer hang together. ... cupid.
It was because I neuer tide them; the one was knit by Pluto, not cupid, ..."
5. Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings edited by John Denison Champlin, Charles Callahan Perkins (1887)
"Ceiling : 1, Council of the Gods, before which cupid and Psyche are pleading ...
2, Banquet of the Gods in celebration of the marriage of Psyche and cupid, ..."
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