Meaning Of The Word Lotus-eater
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Lotus-eater Meaning
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What's The Definition Of Lotus-eater?
lotus-eater in American English
in the Odyssey, one of a people who ate the fruit of the lotus and consequently became indolent, dreamy, and forgetful of duty noun: 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 lotus-eater in British English noun: one of a people encountered by Odysseus in North Africa who lived in indolent forgetfulness, drugged by the fruit of the legendary lotus |
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