Definitions for cupids

cupids Cu·pid

Spelling: [kyoo-pid]
IPA: /ˈkyu pɪd/

Cupids is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in cupids (cdipsu).

Definitions for cupids

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 cupids

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

Examples for cupids

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Word Value for cupids
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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