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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid;

2. a desire for sexual intimacy;
[syn: sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Eros \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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Eros n 1: (Greek mythology) god of love; son of Aphrodite; identified with Roman Cupid 2: a desire for sexual intimacy [syn: sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

126 Moby Thesaurus words for "Eros": Agdistis, Amor, Aphrodite, Apollo, Apollon, Ares, Artemis, Astarte, Ate, Athena, Bacchus, Ceres, Christian love, Cora, Cronus, Cupid, Cybele, Demeter, Despoina, Diana, Dionysus, Dis, Freya, Gaea, Gaia, Ge, Great Mother, Hades, Helios, Hephaestus, Hera, Here, Hermes, Hestia, Hymen, Hyperion, Jove, Juno, Jupiter, Jupiter Fidius, Jupiter Fulgur, Jupiter Optimus Maximus, Jupiter Pluvius, Jupiter Tonans, Kama, Kore, Kronos, Love, Magna Mater, Mars, Mercury, Minerva, Mithras, Momus, Neptune, Nike, Olympians, Olympic gods, Ops, Orcus, Persephassa, Persephone, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Platonic love, Pluto, Poseidon, Proserpina, Proserpine, Rhea, Saturn, Tellus, Venus, Vesta, Vulcan, Zeus, admiration, adoration, affection, agape, ardency, ardor, attachment, bodily love, brotherly love, caritas, charity, conjugal love, desire, devotion, faithful love, fancy, fervor, flame, fondness, free love, free-lovism, heart, hero worship, idolatry, idolism, idolization, lasciviousness, libido, like, liking, love, lovemaking, married love, passion, physical love, popular regard, popularity, regard, sentiment, sex, sexual love, shine, spiritual love, tender feeling, tender passion, truelove, uxoriousness, weakness, worship, yearning
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):

Eros, LA -- U.S. town in Louisiana Population (2000): 202 Housing Units (2000): 87 Land area (2000): 0.996269 sq. miles (2.580325 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.996269 sq. miles (2.580325 sq. km) FIPS code: 24215 Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22 Location: 32.392502 N, 92.422737 W ZIP Codes (1990): 71238 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Eros, LA Eros