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Eros

ˈɪrɑs
WordNet
Statue of Eros and Anteros. Eros approaches the sleeping Anteros. At the base the crowned eagle and castle of Vincenzo Giustiniani's coat of arms. Print is part of a series of prints after sculptures in the collection of Giustiniani in Rome.
Statue of Eros and Anteros. Eros approaches the sleeping Anteros. At the base the crowned eagle and castle of Vincenzo Giustiniani's coat of arms. Print is part of a series of prints after sculptures in the collection of Giustiniani in Rome.
  1. (n) eros
    a desire for sexual intimacy
  2. (n) Eros
    (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid
Illustrations
Two women standing near a column with a statue of Eros. They wear an evening gown with train and an evening robe trimmed with Worth fur. The woman on the left has a rose in her hand. Planche 51 from Gazette du Bon Ton 1924, No. 9.
Two women standing near a column with a statue of Eros. They wear an evening gown with train and an evening robe trimmed with Worth fur. The woman on the left has a rose in her hand. Planche 51 from Gazette du Bon Ton 1924, No. 9.
Two wrestling angels. Probably earthly and heavenly love (Eros and Anteros?).
Two wrestling angels. Probably earthly and heavenly love (Eros and Anteros?).
Two women stand by a column with a bust of the god Eros. The woman on the left is wearing an evening gown with Worth's train; the woman on the right has an evening robe trimmed with Worth fur. Planche 51 from Gazette du Bon Ton 1924, No. 9.
Two women stand by a column with a bust of the god Eros. The woman on the left is wearing an evening gown with Worth's train; the woman on the right has an evening robe trimmed with Worth fur. Planche 51 from Gazette du Bon Ton 1924, No. 9.
Statue of Eros and Anteros. Eros approaches the sleeping Anteros. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints after the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
Statue of Eros and Anteros. Eros approaches the sleeping Anteros. On the base the coat of arms of Vincenzo Giustiniani. Print is part of an album with a series of prints after the sculptures in the collection in the Galleria Giustiniani in Rome.
On display is Act III, scene 9 with Mark Antony, Cleopatra and Eros in a palace in Alexandria.
On display is Act III, scene 9 with Mark Antony, Cleopatra and Eros in a palace in Alexandria.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Eros
    (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.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) Eros
    Pl. Erotes or Eroses (e-rō′ tēz, ē′ ros-ez). In Greek myth, the god of love, identified by the Romans with Cupid. See Cupid.
  2. (n) Eros
    [NL.] In zoology, a genus of malacodermatous beetles, of the family Telephoridæ. There are many species, of Europe and America, as E. mundus of North America.
  3. (n) Eros
    In astronomy, No. 433 of the asteroid group, discovered photographically by Witt, at Berlin, in 1898, and for a time provisionally referred to as D. Q. Its orbit is much smaller than that of any other minor planet, its mean distance from the sun being less than that of Mars. Its period is 643.11 days. At times it can approach the earth within about 13,000,000 miles (nearer than any other member of the solar system), and thus furnishes perhaps the most precise of all methods for finding the solar parallax. At these rare approaches it may nearly reach the limit of naked-eye visibility, but it is usually observable only in large telescopes, its diameter being not more than 15 or 20 miles. At certain times there are regular variations in its brightness from which an axial rotation in 5 hours 16 minutes is inferred.
Quotations
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros.
Minna Antrim
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary L., fr. Gr. love, (personified) Eros, fr. to love

Usage in the news

The Trilogy 'Eros' Has Too Much Fooling Around. ashingtonpost.com

From Eros to Gaia by Freeman Dyson Pantheon/A Cornelia and Michael Bessie Book, 371 pp. nybooks.com

Landscape of Eros, Through the Peephole. nytimes.com

Eros in Antiquity photographed by Antonia Mulas The Erotic Art Book Society, 153 pp. nybooks.com

Tortoise eros standards thrill jockey. prb.com

Eros is seeking an early holiday gift: A home. oregonlive.com

Grant Boast Appointed Regional Sales Manager for BBA Aviation ERO. airportbusiness.com

Rafael Pin?eros — Mulato Films. nytimes.com

MARK NASON Eros from Viva International Group. 2020mag.com

Largest – Eros, entered by Marisa Martens. petersburgpilot.com

Stephen Eros and Jamie Lynn Marble. kdhx.org

Photographs by Eros Hoagland / Redux. time.com

Dallas Airmotive, a BBA Aviation Engine Repair and Overhaul (ERO) company, has been appointed a Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) Designated Overhaul Facility (DOF) for its PW535B, PW535E, and PW545C engine models. airportbusiness.com

Z ero tolerance is always a knee-jerk reaction, but rarely works out well. fortmorgantimes.com

Romance , which occasionally appeals, and eros, which never fails. latimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

In this work we define as EROs ob jects with colors consistent with passively evolving elliptical galaxies at z ≥ 1.
EROs in the EIS Fields. I: The AXAF (Chandra) Deep Field

Ob jects with these extreme properties (faint K-band magnitudes, extremely red optical-NIR colors) are now commonly known as Extremely Red Ob jects (EROs).
EROs in the EIS Fields. I: The AXAF (Chandra) Deep Field

The EIS data have been used to construct EROs samples using a variety of magnitude and color criteria.
EROs in the EIS Fields. I: The AXAF (Chandra) Deep Field

In this paper, we review the EIS dataset (Sect. 2) and then present a number of possible EROs samples using different selection criteria (Sect. 3).
EROs in the EIS Fields. I: The AXAF (Chandra) Deep Field

There are no EROs in our samples brighter than K s = 18.
EROs in the EIS Fields. I: The AXAF (Chandra) Deep Field

Usage in literature

Ego Maenas, ego mei pars, ego vir sterilis ero? "The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus" by Caius Valerius Catullus

Identified with Venus, as Harpocrates was with Eros, she was honored especially by the women with whom love was a profession. "The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism" by Franz Cumont

She found them in the studio with Dot and Eros. "Doctor Luttrell's First Patient" by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Love between man and woman must be forever young, even as Eros, Cupid, Krishna, are forever youthful gods. "The History of Sir Richard Calmady" by Lucas Malet

Production of G. Strube's "Hymn to Eros" at a concert given in Boston, for the Germanic Museum. "Annals of Music in America" by Henry Charles Lahee

It is so hard to reckon on Eros. "Astounding Stories of Super-Science, August 1930" by Various

Then came the hero of the evening, James, the unknown Eros. "Love and Lucy" by Maurice Henry Hewlett

You ... you think you're a bloody 'ero, eih, p'tectin' a woman from 'er 'usband! "Changing Winds" by St. John G. Ervine

Ego ero in corde et in ore vestro. "The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55" by Francisco Colin

Why, when I go down to supper, I'll be the 'ero of the servants' 'all: the 'ole of the staff is that curious! "The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25)" by Robert Louis Stevenson

Usage in poetry
Onyx-eyed Odalisques
and ornithologists
observe
the flight
of Eros obsolete
"Lunar Baedeker" by Mina Loy
Not Eros, with his joyous laugh,
The urchin blind and bare,
But Love, with spectacles and staff,
And scanty, silvered hair.
"The Lyre Of Anacreon" by Oliver Wendell Holmes Author object (518)
Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore.
"Quatrains" by Ralph Waldo Emerson Author object (546)
Love, like a bird, hath perch'd upon a spray
For thee and me to hearken what he sings.
Contented, he forgets to fly away;
But hush!... remind not Eros of his wings.
"Epigrams" by William Watson Author object (722)
Once a fowler, young and artless,
To the quiet greenwood came;
Full of skill was he and heartless
In pursuit of feathered game.
And betimes he chanced to see
Eros perching in a tree.
"Two Idylls From Bion The Smyrnean" by Eugene Field Author object (196)
O Nicias, not for us alone
Was laughing Eros born,
Nor shines alone for us the moon,
Nor burns the ruddy morn;
Alas! to-morrow lies not in the ken
Of us who are, O Nicias, mortal men!
"Mortality" by Eugene Field Author object (196)