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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural curios) Etymology: short for curiosity Date: 1849 something (as a decorative object) considered novel, rare, or bizarre ; curiosity; also an unusual or bizarre person

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -os) a rare or unusual object or person. Etymology: 19th-c. abbr. of CURIOSITY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Curio Cu"ri*o (k?"r?-?), n.; pl. Curios (-?z). [Abbreviation of curiosity.] Any curiosity or article of virtu.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(curios) A curio is an object such as a small ornament which is unusual and fairly rare. ...Oriental curios. ...antique and curio shops. N-COUNT

Moby Thesaurus

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