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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inactivity | Idler, drone, droil, dawdle, mopus; do-little faineant, dummy, sleeping partner; afternoon farmer; truant; (runaway) : bummer, loafer, goldbrick, goldbicker, lounger, lazzarone; lubber, lubbard; slow coach; (slow.); opium eater, lotus eater; slug; lag, sluggard, slugabed; slumberer, dormouse, marmot; waiter on Providence, fruges consumere natus. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Lotus Eater (1921) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
lotus eater | 49 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "LOTUS EATER"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dembel (dangler, dawdler, do nothing, do-naught, drone, faineant, floppy, idle, Idler, lazy, lazybones, lazy-boots, slacker, sluggard, work-shy), ëndërrimtar (contemplative, daydreamer, dreamy, illusionist, star gazer, utopian). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | лотофаг, ленивец (lazybones, sloth, sluggard, tardigrade), празен мечтател. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | rozkošník (voluptuary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | mangeur de lotus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λωτοφάγοσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lótuszevõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | otuslay eateray visãtor (air-monger, brooding, castle builder, day dreamer, dreamer, moony, notional, pensive, starry eyed, thoughtful, visionary, wistful, wool gathering), sibarit (sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary). (various references) праздный мечтатель. (various references) lotusojedac, sanjar (daydreamer, dreamer). (various references) zevk ve sefaya düşkün tip (reveler, reveller), hayallere dalan kimse. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Lobodon carcinophagus, Melilotus, Merops apiaster, Musophagidae, Myrmecophaga tridactyla, Myrmecophagidae, Nelumbo nucifera, RM:magliavieul, Ziziphus lotus, Zizyphus lotus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-l-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: roulettes, tolerates. | |
-2 letters: alertest, aureoles, lustrate, oleaster, outrates, outstare, outsteer, resalute, resolute, rosulate, roulette, tolerate, toluates, tutelars. | |
-3 letters: areoles, aureole, austere, elaters, eluates, estreat, estrual, letters, oleates, outeats, outlast, outlets, outrate, outsert, rattles, realest, relates, reslate, restate, retaste, roseate, rosette, rotates, saluter, settler, settlor, soleret, starlet, startle, stature, stealer, sterlet, stouter, teleost, toaster. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-o-r-s-t-t-u" | |
+3 letters: overstimulate, southeasterly. | |
+4 letters: overstimulated, overstimulates, stoutheartedly, tetrafluorides. | |
+5 letters: electroacoustic, heterosexuality, overarticulates, thermoregulates. | |
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| 1. Usage: Modern 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Translations: Ancient 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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