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icarus
/ˈɪˌkɝəs/
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What does icarus mean?
proper noun
- A Greek mythological figure, son of Daedalus, who escaped from the Cretan labyrinth of Knossos by flying with wings made from feathers and wax, but flew too near to the sun, which melted the wax in the wings, so he fell down and drowned in the Aegean Sea.
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/ˈɪˌkɝəs/
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Here hapless Icarus had found his part, Had not the father’s grief restrain’d his art.
Far less questionable is the legend of Icarus, for here it is possible to trace a foundation of fact in the story.
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The wings, it appears, were soldered with wax, and Icarus, flying too high, was struck by a ray of the sun, which melted the wax.
He was, in fact, a thorough Bohemian, adventurous, but not an adventurer; a hare-brained fellow, a kind of Icarus, only possessing relays of wings.
Enterprise, like Icarus, had soared too high, and melted the wax of her wings; like Icarus, she had fallen into a sea, and learned, while floundering in its waves, that her proper element was the solid ground.