Today's word of the day, boys and girls, is "lotusland."
Why, I personally know a couple of people in lotusland. We may never get
them out.
Colin Chapman lived in lotusland, as evidenced in the definition below.
Ciao,
Katie
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The Word of the Day for August 14 is:
lotusland \LOH-tuhs-land\ (noun)
1 : a place inducing contentment especially by offering an
idyllic living situation
*2 : a state or an ideal marking contentment often achieved
through self-indulgence
Example sentence:
Lynn believed that if she earned enough money, she could buy
herself peace in her own personal lotusland.
Did you know?
In the _Odyssey_, Odysseus and his men discover a magical
land of lotus eaters. Some of the sailors eat the delicious
"lotus" and forget about their homeland, pleading to stay forever
in this "lotusland." (It is likely that the lotus in question was
a real plant, the jujube, whose sweet juice is used in candy
making and which has given its name to a popular fruity candy.)
The label "lotusland" is now applied to any place resembling such
an ideal of perfection, but it also carries connotations of
indolence and self-indulgence, possibly derived from the way the
sailors refused to work once they reached the original lotusland.
The dreamy unreality of a lotusland is a nice place to visit, but
you wouldn't want to live there.
*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.
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