Cupid

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cupid \Cu"pid\ (k?"p?d), n. [L.Cupido, fr. cupido desire, desire
     of love, fr. cupidus. See {Cupidity}.] (Rom. Myth.)
     The god of love, son of Venus; usually represented as a
     naked, winged boy with bow and arrow.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Cupid
       n : (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros
           [syn: {Amor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  74 Moby Thesaurus words for "Cupid":
     Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte,
     Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Cora, Cronus, Cybele, Demeter,
     Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Eros, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge,
     Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes,
     Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius,
     Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius,
     Jupiter Tonans, Kama, Kore, Kronos, Love, Magna Mater, Mars,
     Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians,
     Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus,
     Phoebus Apollo, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea,
     Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CUPID
       
          A graphic {query language}.
       
          ["CUPID: A Graphic Oriented Facility for Support of
          Nonprogrammer Interactions with a Database", N. McDonald, PhD
          Thesis, CS Dept, UC Berkeley 1975].
       
       

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  CUPID, n.  The so-called god of love.  This bastard creation of a
  barbarous fancy was no doubt inflicted upon mythology for the sins of
  its deities.  Of all unbeautiful and inappropriate conceptions this is
  the most reasonless and offensive.  The notion of symbolizing sexual
  love by a semisexless babe, and comparing the pains of passion to the
  wounds of an arrow -- of introducing this pudgy homunculus into art
  grossly to materialize the subtle spirit and suggestion of the work --
  this is eminently worthy of the age that, giving it birth, laid it on
  the doorstep of prosperity.