- the Roman god of love who is shown as a beautiful baby boy with wings, carrying a bow and arrow
- Cupid had at last managed to lodge an arrow in his stony heart.
- cupid[countable] a picture or statue of a baby boy who looks like Cupid
- little cupids painted in the clouds on the ceiling
Word Originfrom Latin Cupido, personification of cupido ‘love, desire’, from cupere ‘to desire’.
Idioms
See Cupid in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryplay Cupid
- to try to start a romantic relationship between two people
- She played Cupid to her two best friends when she set them up on a date together.
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