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What (who) is cupid - definition
cupid
![chariot]] of the war god, from the reign of [[Trajan]] (98–117 AD)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Altar Mars Venus Massimo n4.jpg?width=200 "chariot]] of the war god, from the reign of [[Trajan]] (98–117 AD)")
![Caravaggio's ''Amor Vincit Omnia'']]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Amor Vincet Omnia.jpg?width=200 "Caravaggio's ''Amor Vincit Omnia'']]")
![''Cupid the Honey Thief'', by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Cranach, Cupid Complaining to Venus.jpg?width=200 "''Cupid the Honey Thief'', by [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]]")
![''[[Cupid Carving His Bow]]'' (1620s) by [[François Duquesnoy]], [[Bode Museum]], Berlin](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Duquesnoy Cupid prewar photo.jpg?width=200 "''[[Cupid Carving His Bow]]'' (1620s) by [[François Duquesnoy]], [[Bode Museum]], Berlin")
![''Cupid Riding on a Dolphin'' (1630) by [[Erasmus Quellinus II]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erasmus Quellinus (II)- Cupido navegando sobre un delfín, 1630.jpg?width=200 "''Cupid Riding on a Dolphin'' (1630) by [[Erasmus Quellinus II]]")
![Tiepolo]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido - WGA22337.jpg?width=200 "Tiepolo]]")
![A blindfolded, armed Cupid (1452/66) by [[Piero della Francesca]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piero della Francesca - Cupid Blindfolded - WGA17587.jpg?width=200 "A blindfolded, armed Cupid (1452/66) by [[Piero della Francesca]]")
![The god of love (Cupid) shoots an arrow at the lover, from a 14th-century text of the ''[[Roman de la Rose]]''.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roman de la Rose f. 13r (The god of love shoots an arrow at the lover).jpg?width=200 "The god of love (Cupid) shoots an arrow at the lover, from a 14th-century text of the ''[[Roman de la Rose]]''.")
![''Psyché et l'amour'' (1626–29) by [[Simon Vouet]]: Psyche lifts a lamp to view the sleeping Cupid.](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Vouet-Psyché-Lyon.jpg?width=200 "''Psyché et l'amour'' (1626–29) by [[Simon Vouet]]: Psyche lifts a lamp to view the sleeping Cupid.")
![Bronze ''Cupid Sleeping'' on a lion skin (1635–40), signed ''F,'' based on the marble attributed to [[Praxiteles]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/WLA vanda Sleeping Cupid.jpg?width=200 "Bronze ''Cupid Sleeping'' on a lion skin (1635–40), signed ''F,'' based on the marble attributed to [[Praxiteles]]")
![[[Edme Bouchardon]], Cupid, 1744, [[National Gallery of Art]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edme Bouchardon, Cupid, 1744, NGA 41708.jpg?width=200 "[[Edme Bouchardon]], Cupid, 1744, [[National Gallery of Art]]")
![Cupid sculpture by [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bertel Thorvaldsen - Cupid.jpg?width=200 "Cupid sculpture by [[Bertel Thorvaldsen]]")
![red-figure]] plate with Eros as a youth making an offering (c. 340–320 BC). [[Walters Art Museum]], [[Baltimore]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ascoli Satriano Painter - Red-Figure Plate with Eros - Walters 482765.jpg?width=200 "red-figure]] plate with Eros as a youth making an offering (c. 340–320 BC). [[Walters Art Museum]], [[Baltimore]]")
![[[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] – ''Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lucas Cranach the Elder - Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "[[Lucas Cranach the Elder]] – ''Venus with Cupid Stealing Honey''")
![Roman fresco]] from [[Herculaneum]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Herculaneum - Lyre and Cupids.jpg?width=200 "Roman fresco]] from [[Herculaneum]]")
![Dürer]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Albrecht Dürer - Cupid the Honey Thief - WGA07372.jpg?width=200 "Dürer]]")
![''Venus, Mars and Cupido'' by [[Joachim Wtewael]], around 1610](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joachim Wtewael - Venus, Mars en Cupido - oil paint on copper - around 1610.jpg?width=200 "''Venus, Mars and Cupido'' by [[Joachim Wtewael]], around 1610")
![Time]] points an accusing finger at baby Cupid, held in a net that evokes the snare in which Venus and Mars were caught by her betrayed husband Vulcan.Edward Morris, ''Public Art Collections in North-West England: A History and Guide'' (Liverpool University Press), 2001, p. 19](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Guercino - cena mitologica (venus, marte, cupido e o tempo), c.1624-27.jpg?width=200 "Time]] points an accusing finger at baby Cupid, held in a net that evokes the snare in which Venus and Mars were caught by her betrayed husband Vulcan.Edward Morris, ''Public Art Collections in North-West England: A History and Guide'' (Liverpool University Press), 2001, p. 19")
![Poussin]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NICOLAS-POUSSIN APOLL-UND-DAPHNE CC-BY-SA BSTGS 2334.jpg?width=200 "Poussin]].")
![Jean Ducamps]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Master of the Incredulity of Saint Thomas or Jean Ducamps - Amor breaking his bow.jpg?width=200 "Jean Ducamps]]")
![''Cupid in a Tree'' (1795/1805) by [[Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jean-Jacque-François le Barbier - Cupid in a Tree - Google Art Project.jpg?width=200 "''Cupid in a Tree'' (1795/1805) by [[Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier]]")
![''Omnia Vincit Amor'' (1809) by [[Benjamin West]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Benjamin west omnia vincit amor 1809.jpg?width=200 "''Omnia Vincit Amor'' (1809) by [[Benjamin West]]")
![''Cupid on a [[sea monster]]'' (c. 1857) by [[William Adolphe Bouguereau]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bouguereau, William Adolphe - Putto sur un monstre marin.png?width=200 "''Cupid on a [[sea monster]]'' (c. 1857) by [[William Adolphe Bouguereau]]")
![Valentine greeting card]] (1909)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Antique Valentine 1909 01.jpg?width=200 "Valentine greeting card]] (1909)")
ROMAN DEITY, COUNTERPART OF EROS
Amor (mythology); Cupid's arrow; Cupid (holiday character); Dan Cupid
n. to play cupid
cupid
ROMAN DEITY, COUNTERPART OF EROS
Amor (mythology); Cupid's arrow; Cupid (holiday character); Dan Cupid
also Cupid
(cupids)
Cupid is the Roman god of love. He is usually shown as a baby boy with wings and a bow and arrow.
N-PROPER
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If you say that someone is playing cupid, you mean that they are trying to bring two people together to start a romantic relationship.
...the aristocrat who played Cupid to the Duke and Duchess.
PHRASE
Cupid
ROMAN DEITY, COUNTERPART OF EROS
Amor (mythology); Cupid's arrow; Cupid (holiday character); Dan Cupid
see cupid
Wikipedia
Cupid
In classical mythology, Cupid (Latin Cupīdō , meaning "passionate desire") is the god of desire, erotic love, attraction and affection. He is often portrayed as the son of the love goddess Venus and the god of war Mars.
Examples of use of cupid
1. One card, featuring Bush as cupid, reads: My arrows are weapons of mass seduction!‘‘ Another with Sen.
2. DeMille; the Sabine women courageously calling timeout in battle; various mythological lovers like Cupid and Psyche in their porcelain embraces.
3. Cupid capitalism Americans don‘t scrimp when it comes to opening their wallets in the name of romance.
4. Cupid does not so much aim a well–targeted arrow as fire a scattergun in random directions.
5. Times are tough, explained Nawal Sehwel, the local cupid, and a college degree means an extra salary.