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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. someone indifferent to the busy world;
- Example: "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence"
[syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lotus-eater \Lo"tus-eat`er\ (l[=o]"t[u^]s-[=e]t`[~e]r), Lotos-eater \Lo"tos-eat`er\ (l[=o]"t[o^]s-[=e]t`[~e]r), n. (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. [1913 Webster] The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lotus-eater n 1: someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" [syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]