EROS: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'eerâs
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| | Definition: | | [n] (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid |
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| | See Also: | | Greek deity | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \E"ros\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ? love, ? (personified) Eros, fr.
? to love.] (Greek Myth.)
Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as
one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the
son of Aphrodite, equivalent to the Latin god Cupid.
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