Definitions for Cupid

Cupid Cu·pid

Spelling: [kyoo-pid]
IPA: /ˈkyu pɪd/

Cupid is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in Cupid (cdipu).

Definitions for Cupid

noun

  1. Also called Amor. the ancient Roman god of love and the son of either Mars or Mercury and Venus, identified with Eros and commonly represented as a winged, naked, infant boy with a bow and arrows.
  2. (lowercase) a similar winged being, or a representation of one, especially as symbolic of love.

Origin of Cupid

Latin Cupīdō Cupid, the personification of cupīdō desire, love, equivalent to cup(ere) to long for, desire + -īdō noun suffix (cf. libido)

Examples for Cupid

A grievous error it is to suppose that Cupid's artillery is limited to bow and arrows.

I did; the minute-hand was exactly there, under the point of that Cupid's foot.

It is only in poetry that Cupid is more powerful than either Mammon or Mars.

Is not the author and parent of all our love, Cupid, as blind as a beetle?

She had much to say of dew and roses, turtledoves and the arrows of Cupid.

R and I were introduced by a married couple who enjoyed playing Cupid for their pet bachelor, a junior I-banker.

Who, except Cupid, would barter his liberty for a butterfly?

A delicious marble Cupid appeared to have just alighted on his pedestal at the upper end of the room.

His Cupid—which, like Veronica Mars, was critically adored yet underwatched—got canceled after one season in 1998.

The same ginger-haired model served Caravaggio for his Amor Vincit Omnia, where Cupid stands astride an unmade bed.

Word Value for Cupid
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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