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Meanings of eros in English

Portuguese
concupiscência
Catalan
concupiscència
Spanish
calentura

A desire for sexual intimacy.

        concupiscência
        Usage of eros in English
        1
        We find first of all eros, or desire, in Song of Songs.
        Three philosophies of life
        2
        A rembetiko, Jakob, always tells a story full of heartache and eros.
        Fugitive pieces
        3
        Actium was the enemy of eros, skewering desire and turning it inside out.
        The Memoirs of Cleopatra
        4
        Yet its magical constituents are just one part of the highly complex process of eros.
        The Irish Times
        5
        Language as sex, on the other hand, is fraught with the perils of an open-ended eros.
        The new yorker
        6
        Same-sex desire shook off all its earnestness and looked both playful and dangerous: eros at its most fascinating.
        The Guardian
        7
        Thousands of years ago, she loved Eros, son of Hephaestus and Aphrodite.
        Book Three: The Final Exodus
        8
        Eros is a day out, and then help is on the way.
        Leviathan Wakes
        9
        But what they did on Eros must have taken months to arrange.
        Leviathan Wakes
        10
        Eros had become something frighteningly powerful once the protomolecule had taken hold.
        Caliban's War
        11
        Enough fissionable material to keep the surface of Eros unapproachable for years.
        Leviathan Wakes
        12
        Eros, not Meleager, is in this case the weaver of the garland.
        Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology
        13
        If Eros kept this rate of increase up, it would outrun them.
        Leviathan Wakes
        14
        The voice of Eros shifted, different voices now, singing something in Hindi.
        Leviathan Wakes
        15
        There are Russian marines all over Eros, and the Polemarch is Russian.
        Ender’s Game
        16
        What happened on Eros... it's put a lot of things in perspective.
        Leviathan Wakes
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