lotus-eater Meaning, Definition & Usage
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noun someone indifferent to the busy world
stargazer.
- in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence
WordNet
Lo"tus-eat`er, Lo"tos-eat`er noun
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- Lotus-eater
- Lotos-eater
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Definitions
(Class. Myth.) One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi. The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.