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Definition: Cupid |
CupidNoun1. (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Cupid" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a desire". |
Date "Cupid" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | 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. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Computing | 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]. Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
19th Century Satire | A driver of sharp darts. The son of Venus and the God of Love, who with bow and arrows punctured men's bosoms with the darts of admiration. But now-a-days the arrow's not in it with a snug bathing suit or a decollette gown. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Biographical Satire | CUPID, Daniel, a cute little fat fellow who called on every one at least once. Born shortly after Adam, and is still up to mischievous tricks. It was he who made kings fall in love with poor country girls; chauffeurs with their ladies, and beggars with princesses. C. held all men and women equal provided they were good, and he made the happiest people on earth when they listened to his voice. He witnessed several international engagements, but did not like them, as the contestants gave him a black eye. He also was responsible for mothers-in-law. Some roads he made very rough, but C. always was a good guide. At times he caused pain, but he said it never was his fault. When C. stayed in a house the sun was always shining. You should be at home when he calls. Ambition: That sigh. Recreation: Archery. Address: Perhaps you know. Clubs: None. He prefers the fireside and moonlight nights. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Cupid The god of love, and son of Venus. According to fable he wets with blood the grindstone on which he sharpens his arrows. "Ferus et Cupido Semper ardentes acuens sagittas.' Horace: 2 Odes, viii. 14, 15. The best statues of this little god are "Cupid Sleeping," in Albano (Rome); "Cupid playing with a Swan," in the Capitol: "Cupid mounted on a Tiger," (Negroni); and "Cupid stringing his Bow," in the Louvre (Paris). Raphael's painting of Cupid is in the Farnesina (Rome). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | CUPID, BLIND CUPID. A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind. See BLIND CUPID. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Cupid was the ancient Roman god of love, the son of Venus and Mars, associated with the Greek god Eros, which see for more details. He was generally considered beneficent, but there are many stories centered around his penchant for mischievous matchmaking.
See also: Greek mythology, Roman mythology and Eros (god).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Cupid."
Synonym: CupidSynonym: Amor (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Venus, Aphrodite, Hebe, the Graces, Peri, Houri, Cupid, Apollo, Hyperion, Adonis, Antionous, Narcissus. |
Love | Cupid, Venus; myrtle; true lover's knot; love token, love suit, love affair, love tale, love story; the, old story, plighted love; courtship; amourette; free love. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cupid |
| English words defined with "Cupid": Eros ♦ Love god ♦ psyche ♦ The god of love. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Cupid": Adam Cupid ♦ BLIND CUPID, Bowyer God ♦ Campaspe, Cordelia's Gift ♦ FORMA ♦ Gods ♦ Heart's Ease ♦ Mirrors. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Cupid" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Romanian (avaricious). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen! (Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town; writing credit: Romeo Muller) | |
Lyrics | Stupid Cupid keeps on calling me (Fastlove; performing artist: George Michael) Cupid please take your aim at me (Cherish; performing artist: Madonna) Cupid by the hour sends (Wishing Well (A Tone Poem); performing artist: Terence Trent D'arby) Cupid, don't draw back your bow (Sleepwalker; performing artist: The Wallflowers) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Operation Cupid (1960) Cupid Goes Nuts (1947) Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid (1944) The Stupid Cupid (1944) Blondie Plays Cupid (1940) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Seated female figure with mirror adjusting her dress while a winged hand maiden attends to her hair ; Female figure seated in klismos chair while figure of Eros or Cupid, assisted by hand maiden, washes her feet. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cupid Childs. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | While Cupid waits. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Reed as Cupid. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The story of Cupid and Psyche: Psyche spying on Cupid. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cupid and Psyche. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Venus and Cupid. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Interior with painting of nude woman and cupid, over fireplace, French provincial furniture, and heavily draped windows at left, in home of Edmund Cogswell Converse, Greenwich, Connecticut. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cupid and the cop. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Can love be controul'd by advice? Will Cupid our mothers obey?. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Ovid | Every lover is a warrior, and Cupid has his camps. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Methuselah is a (r)gamin beside Cupid. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FORMA :PAUPERIS:. [Latin] In the character of a poor person -- a method by which a litigant without money for lawyers is considerately permitted to lose his case. When Adam long ago in Cupid's awful court (For Cupid ruled ere Adam was invented) Sued for Eve's favor, says an ancient law report, He stood and pleaded unhabilimented. "You sue in forma pauperis, I see," Eve cried; "Actions can't here be that way prosecuted." So all poor Adam's motions coldly were denied: He went away -- as he had come -- nonsuited. G.J. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cupid" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 64.86% of the time. "Cupid" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 64.86% | 48 | 49,194 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 32.43% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Noun (singular) | 2.7% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 74 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Cupid": the shafts of cupid. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "Cupid": cupid-bow, cupid-woven. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
cupid | 1,463 | by cupid shot | 17 |
cupid junction | 677 | cupid mythology | 15 |
112 cupid lyrics | 79 | cupid lyrics mandy moore stupid | 14 |
cupid picture | 79 | cupid personals | 13 |
stupid cupid | 78 | cupid lisa shannon | 13 |
cupid lyrics stupid | 75 | boss cupid | 13 |
com cupid | 74 | cupid connection | 13 |
cupid psyche | 61 | 112 by cupid lyrics | 12 |
cupid junction.com | 57 | cupid pic | 12 |
112 cupid | 40 | cupid juction | 11 |
cupid greek | 40 | cupid god of love | 11 |
usa cupid | 38 | cupid mandy moore stupid | 11 |
cam cupid | 37 | adultfriendfinder.com cupid | 9 |
cupid tv show | 31 | single cupid | 9 |
cupid lyrics | 30 | date cupid | 8 |
cupid dating | 27 | cupid simon | 8 |
cbs cupid | 23 | cupid god | 8 |
cowell cupid simon | 22 | cupid greek mythology | 8 |
cupid image | 20 | cartoon of cupid | 7 |
cupid clipart | 17 | de cupid | 7 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "Cupid"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | Amor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | Perëndi E Dashurisë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كيوبيد إله الحب بإغريق, صورة كيوبيد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | Купидонче, Купидон. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | Kupid, Amor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | Cupido (Eros), Amor (Eros). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | Amoro (Eros). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | کوپید(افسانه یونان), خدای عشق که بصورت کودک برهنه مجسم شده . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | Cupidon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Amor (love, sexual love). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έρωσ (courtship, Eros, love), έρωτασ (Eros, love). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ׁמל ִא"ב". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | cupido, Ámor. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | dewi asmara, dewa asmara. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | Cupido (avid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 結びの神 , 月下氷人 (go-between, matchmaker), キャンプ村 (campaign, campaign sale, campsite, Canberra, Canon, Cuba, Cuban heel, cubic, cubic type, cubism, cue, culotte, culotte skirt, curacao, curator, cure, curie, curiosity, curium, cute, cuticle, cuticle cream, cuticle remover, cutie, killer, killer dust, kiosk, queue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | キュー"ッド , むすびのかみ, 'っかひょうじ" (go-between, matchmaker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | upidcay Cupido (love, love-god). (various references) Cupidon, Arghirofil (grasping, lover of money, money grubber, rapacious, usurer), Amoraş (amor), Amor (love, love affair, love making). (various references) Купидон, Амур (Amur). (various references) kupid. (various references) Cupido, Dios Del Amor. (various references) Amorin. (various references) Aşk Tanrısı (Eros). (various references) Купідон. (various references) tượng thần ái tình. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amor, cupidinis, cupido. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "Cupid": cupidities, cupidity, cupids. (additional references) | |
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"Cupid" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ccpit, Cepad, cidip, coppid, cpim, cpio, cuid, Cumplido, cupa, cuped, cupi, cupido, cupie, cupin, cupio, cuppam, cuppy, cupu, iupd, Mcquoid, ocupyd, pupid, qupid, Uchupi, ucid, Ucip. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Cupid" (pronounced kyuw"pud) |
| 4 | -uw" p u d | stupid. |
| 3 | -p u d | bicuspid, intrepid, lipid, rapid, tepid, torpid, tricuspid, vapid. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pudic. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-i-p-u" | |
-1 letter: duci. | |
-2 letters: cud, cup, dip, dui, dup, pic, piu, pud. | |
-3 letters: id, pi, up. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-i-p-u" | |
+1 letter: cupids, cuspid. | |
+2 letters: clupeid, cuspids, duckpin, pumiced. | |
+3 letters: bicuspid, clupeids, clupeoid, cupidity, cuspidal, cuspides, cuspidor, duckpins, hiccuped, occupied, pedicure, pellucid, pictured, pulicide, punditic, unpicked, unpriced, upcoiled. | |
+4 letters: bicuspids, chirruped, clupeoids, cuspidate, cuspidors, decupling, duplicate, duplicity, epicedium, hiccupped, impudence, insculped, outpriced, pedicured, pedicures, poulticed, prejudice, producing, pudencies, pulicides, pycnidium, tricuspid, unclipped, unpoliced, upclimbed. | |
+5 letters: capsulized, compendium, copurified, cupidities, decoupling, diplodocus, duplicated, duplicates, duplicator, epicardium, imprudence, impudences, impudicity, inculpated, lycopodium, mudcapping, outpitched, pediculate, pediculous, pedicuring, pedicurist, pellucidly, picturized, precluding, predacious, prejudiced, prejudices, producible, production, productive, publicised, publicized, quadriceps, reoccupied, tricuspids, uncrippled, underprice, unoccupied, unpedantic, unscripted. | |
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