'Lotus-eater' definitions:
Definition of 'lotus-eater'
From: WordNet
noun
Someone indifferent to the busy world; "in the Odyssey Homer tells of lotus-eaters who live in dreamy indolence" [syn: lotus-eater, stargazer]
Definition of 'Lotus-eater'
From: GCIDE
- 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]