Lotus-eater
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Lotus-eater is a noun meaning (figuratively) Someone with a carefree, idyllic life.
Meaning
(figuratively) Someone with a carefree, idyllic life.
More Meanings
- (Greek mythology) 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.
Example Sentences
"You're a lucky man, Jim," he kept saying. "You've been ordered to become a lotus-eater."
Men of Ithaca, this is meeter, / In the hollow rosy vale to tarry, / Like a dreamy Lotos-eater, a delirious Lotos-eater!
What! not begun yet? Oh! you degenerate lotus-eater. And here have I been a horny-handed son of toil all the morning, and now I'm as hungry as a hound, and I knew you'd never remember to bring me a turnover or anything, and so I thought I'd come up and get it myself.
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 in full song.
Word Forms
- lotus-eaters
- lotos-eater
- lotos eater
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include lotus, lotuses, eater, devourer, herbivore, nectarivorous.
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