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lotus eater

lotus eater is the alternative form of lotus-eater.

Meaning of lotus-eater

Noun

lotus-eater (plural lotus-eaters)

  1. (Greek) A member of the legendary people living on an island dominated by the lotus tree, who have forgotten their homes due to the fruits' narcotic and stupefying effect.
    • Men of Ithaca, this is meeter, / In the hollow rosy vale to tarry, / Like a dreamy Lotos-eater, a delirious Lotos-eater!1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 116
    Synonyms:
    Lotophagi
  2. (figuratively) Someone with a carefree, idyllic life.
    • Our readers will, we think, agree that this is admirably character­istic, and that the singers of this song must have made pretty free with the intoxicating fruit. How they got home you must read in Homer:—Mr. Tennyson—himself, we presume, a dreamy lotus-eater, a delicious lotus-eater—leaves them...1833 April/July, John Wilson Croker, “Poems by Alfred Tennyson”, in Quarterly Review, volume 49, page 92

Forms of lotus eater

plurallotus eaters

Questions about lotus eater

What is lotus eater the alternative form of?
Lotus eater is the alternative form of lotus-eater.

Words near lotus eater in the dictionary

  1. loture
  2. lotures
  3. lotus
  4. lotus birth
  5. lotus births
  6. lotus eater
  7. lotus eaters
  8. lotus effect
  9. lotus effects
  10. lotus feet
  11. lotus foot

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