| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Soaring too high for safety, like Icarus; adventurous in flight.[Websters]
2. Infrequently used base adjective of the adverb icarianly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (icarianly) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective icarian.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
"ICARIAN" is a common misspelling or typo for: vicarian. |
Date "ICARIAN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1807. (references) |
| Etymology:Icarian \I*ca"ri*an\, adjective. [Latin expression Icarius, Greek, from, the mythic son of D[ae]dalus, who, when flying from Crete on wings cemented with wax, mounted so high that the sun melted the wax, and he fell into the sea.]. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ICARIAN
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Adjective] Adventurous in flight; soaring too high for safety, like Icarus.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
| Literature | Icarian Soaring, adventurous. (See Icaros .) Also a follower of Cabet, the Communist, a native of Icaria (last half of the nineteenth century). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
