curio n : something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

English

Pronunciation

• AHD: kyoo͞r'ē-ō"
• /ˈkjuːriːˌoʊ/
• SAMPA: /"kju:ri:%oU/

Noun

curio (plural: curios)

1. A strange and interesting object which invokes curiosity.

Related terms

• curiosity
• curious

Translations

• Japanese: 骨董品 (kottōhin)

Spanish

Noun

1. curium

Curio may refer to:

• Curio, Switzerland, a municipality in the canton of Ticino
• Gaius Scribonius Curio, one of two politicians in the late Roman Republic
• Curio, a student newspaper based in Canberra, Australia
• Curio, a character on the television series The Shak
• Curio, a rare or decorative collectible object

a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, abnormality, anomaly, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, button, cent, conversation piece, curiosity, exception, farce, farthing, feather, fig, fleabite, folderol, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, improbability, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, minikin, mockery, molehill, museum piece, nonesuch, oddity, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pretty-pretty, prodigiosity, prodigy, rap, rarity, red cent, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, strange thing, straw, toy, trifle, trinket, triviality, tuppence, two cents, twopence, whatnot, whim-wham