lotus position

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   a sitting position with the legs crossed; used in yoga

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Questions about lotus position

What does lotus position mean?

lotus position means "a sitting position with the legs crossed; used in yoga".

Is lotus position a common word?

lotus position is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.