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Icarian

Icarian

9.9
A person who joined a 19th century group that tried to live equally
  • noun
  • /aɪˈkɛəriən/
  • Archaic
: icariano
  • Many Icarians migrated to America to establish their utopian vision in the 19th century.

Examples

  • The Icarians aimed to create a society based on equality and shared resources.

  • The Icarians were a social movement, and they failed.

    Academic text (1993)

  • As a supporter of the Icarian ideals, she believed in the importance of community living.

Surface Forms

Icarian singular
Icarians plural

Morphology

Icarian = Icarus (opaque) = Icarus + ian

The suffix '-ian' is standard, but the meaning as a member of a specific movement is not derivable from the base without historical context.

Etymology

Icarian was used for members of a 19th-century movement inspired by the French writer Étienne Cabet, who imagined a perfect society called Icarie. So an Icarian is a person who joined or supported that community and its ideals.