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say it: KYOO-pid
cupid is a noun meaning "(Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros". It is pronounced /ˈkjupɪd/ — KYOO-pid. It carries 2 recorded senses.
(Roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of Greek Eros
Roman mythology
a symbol for love in the form of a cherubic naked boy with wings and a bow and arrow
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for cupid come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.