Associations to the word «Daedalus»

Wiktionary

DAEDALUS, proper noun. Greek mythological figure who crafted the waxen wings of Icarus.

Dictionary definition

DAEDALUS, noun. (Greek mythology) an Athenian inventor who built the labyrinth of Minos; to escape the labyrinth he fashioned wings for himself and his son Icarus.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats