lotus-eater
Americannoun
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Classical Mythology. a member of a people whom Odysseus found existing in a state of languorous forgetfulness induced by their eating of the fruit of the legendary lotus; one of the lotophagi.
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a person who leads a life of dreamy, indolent ease, indifferent to the busy world; daydreamer.
noun
Etymology
Origin of lotus-eater
First recorded in 1660–80; singular of lotus-eaters, translation of Latin Lōtophagī, from Greek Lōtophágoi, noun use of masculine plural adjective lōtophágos “lotus-eating.” See lotus, -phagous
Vocabulary lists containing lotus-eater
Example Sentences
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A moment he yielded to the temptation of the lotus-eater and continued to luxuriate in the lap of Arcadia.
From A Man and His Money by Frederic Stewart Isham
In this case I waited till I felt like a lotus-eater who could have stayed on forever.
From A-Birding on a Bronco by Florence A. Merriam
About it were chairs and divans that would have satisfied a lotus-eater.
From We Can't Have Everything by Rupert Hughes
I felt a dash of the infatuation of the lotus-eater, in his "—land that seemed always afternoon."
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. by Various
How they got home you must read in Homer:—Mr. Tennyson—himself, we presume, a dreamy lotus-eater, a delicious lotus-eater—leaves them in full song.
From Early Reviews of English Poets by John Louis Haney
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