icarus

unzählbar · Eigenname

A proper noun from Greek mythology referring to the son of Daedalus who, while escaping from Crete with his father using wings made of wax and feathers, flew too close to the sun, causing the wax to melt, and fell into the Aegean Sea where he drowned.

• 🇩🇪Eigenname aus der griechischen Mythologie für den Sohn des Daedalus, der mit Flügeln aus Wachs und Federn von Kreta entkam, aber der Sonne zu nahe kam, sodass das Wachs schmolz und er ins Ägäische Meer stürzte und ertrank; auch Sinnbild für Übermut und vergeblichen Wagemut.

1. Mythological figure B2 formal

   In Greek mythology, the son of the master craftsman Daedalus. He escaped from Crete using wings made of feathers and wax, but flew too close to the sun, causing the wax to melt, and he fell into the sea and drowned.

   • The story of Icarus serves as a warning against overambition.
   • Daedalus warned Icarus not to fly too high or too low.
   • Icarus ignored his father's advice and plummeted into the Aegean Sea.

   🇩🇪Ikarus

2. Symbol of overambition C1 informal

   A person who is destroyed by their own excessive ambition or recklessness.

   • The entrepreneur was an Icarus, flying too high on risky investments.
   • He became an Icarus of the tech world, crashing after his hubris.
   • The novel's protagonist is a modern Icarus, doomed by his own pride.

   🇩🇪Sinnbild des übermäßigen Ehrgeizes

• icaruses plural form
• icaruses' possessive plural form
• icarus's possessive singular form