| slovo | definícia |
lotus-eater
(encz) | lotus-eater,snílek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Lotus-eater
(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] |
lotus-eater
(wn) | 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] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
lotus-eater
(encz) | lotus-eater,snílek n: Zdeněk Brož |
lotus-eater
(wn) | 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] |
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