Eros Definition

ĕrŏs, îr-
noun
The god of love, son of Aphrodite: identified with the Roman god Cupid.
Webster's New World
Sexual love or desire.
Webster's New World
Sexual drive; libido.
American Heritage Medicine
The life instinct, based on the libido, sublimated impulses, and self-preservation.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Eros

  • Latin Erōs from Greek from erōs sexual love

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Eros Sentence Examples

  • In later times they are often represented drawing the car of Dionysus, or bound and ridden by Eros, in allusion to their drunken and amorous habits.

  • In the Aristophanic parody (Birds, 691) the winged Eros in conjunction with gloomy Chaos brings forth the race of birds.

  • In art Eros is represented as a beautiful youth or a winged child.

  • His best work is found in the volume of odes called The Unknown Eros, which is full not only of passages but of entire poems in which exalted thought is expressed in poetry of the richest and most dignified melody.

  • The deity most worshipped at Thespiae, according to Pausanias, was Eros, whose primitive image was an unwrought stone.

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