lotuslandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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• 韻: -ænd

固有名詞

Lotusland

1. (Greek mythology) The legendary island of the lotus-eaters.
   • 1994, Judith Yarnall, Transformations of Circe: The History of an Enchantress:

     Calypso is by far the most effective impediment Odysseus encounters on his journey home to Ithaca, holding him in a sensuous but tedious captivity for seven years, Lotusland revisited.

2. (informal) The city of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (かつ, by extension, the province of British Columbia).
   • 1999, Jim Munroe, Flyboy Action Figure Comes with Gasmask, HarperFlamingo Canada (1999), →ISBN, page 10:

     "Vancouver, until about two years ago." I could tell that she was going to regale me about the beauty of Lotusland, where it never snows and pot grows between cracks in the sidewalk.

参照

語源

lotus +‎ land. See Lotusland.

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• 韻: -ænd

名詞

lotus land (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 lotus lands)

1. A place inducing contentment or self-indulgence especially through offering an idyllic living situation.
2. A state or an ideal marked by contentment often achieved through self-indulgence.