In Roman Mythology, the god of love, son of Mercury and Venus, identified with the Greek Eros. Also in plural (after Latin Cupīdines, Greek Ἔρωτες)…

Greek Mythology. (The name of) a beautiful youth who fell in love with his own reflection in water and pined to death. Hence (allusively): a…

allusively. A boy or (usually young) man likened to the beautiful youth Ganymede of Greek mythology… A beautiful or handsome young man. Cf. Adonis, n.…

A beautiful or handsome young man. Cf. Venus, n.1 4.

(a) in extended sense and in comparisons used to denote a paragon of male physical beauty; (b) a short hairstyle with curls close to and all over the…

(a display of) sturdy masculine physique.