Synonyms:
cupid
Meaning: a symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow
Synonyms:
Cupid, Amor
Meaning: (Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros
Usage examples
THE CALIPH, CUPID AND THE CLOCK
"My name is Cupid," answered the boy.
For these things Cupid will have to answer when he stands at the bar of justice with his victims from the Frogmore flats.
And all good children to whom he related this story, took great heed of this naughty Cupid; but he made fools of them still, for he is astonishingly cunning.
Alack the day, there was no poet to send letters to the outside world on this handling of Cupid's bow and arrow! The comedy was pushed in the most business-like fashion.
The choicest quotations from the works of such established writers as "Aunt Charlotte" of Forget-Me-Not and "Doctor Cupid", the heart-expert of Home Chat, expended themselves fruitlessly on Reggie.