4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
Pretty dimpled boys, like smiling cupids. --Shak.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
Cupid
n : (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros
[syn: {Cupid}, {Amor}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [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.
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