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LOTUS EATER

Synonyms within Context: LOTUS EATER

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Usage: LOTUS EATER

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Lotus Eater (1921)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: LOTUS EATER

DomainTitle

Theater & Movies

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: LOTUS EATER

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

lotus eater

49
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: LOTUS EATER

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

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

праздный мечтатель. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

lotusojedac, sanjar (daydreamer, dreamer). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

zevk ve sefaya düşkün tip (reveler, reveller), hayallere dalan kimse. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: LOTUS EATER

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 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.

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Anagrams: LOTUS EATER

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Modern
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Translations: Ancient
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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