OvidPronunciation: /ˈɒvɪd/Definition of Ovid (43 bc-circa 17 ad), Roman poet; full name Publius Ovidius Naso. He is particularly known for his elegiac love poems (such as the Amores and the Ars Amatoria) and for the Metamorphoses, a hexametric epic which retells Greek and Roman myths. Derivatives Ovidian adjective Ovid in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Ovid in the US English dictionary