"Darwin Award" meaning in All languages combined

See Darwin Award on Wiktionary

Proper name [English]

Forms: Darwin Awards [plural]
Head templates: {{en-proper noun|s|head=Darwin Award}} Darwin Award (plural Darwin Awards)
  1. (humorous) One of the international honours awarded to people who supposedly help to improve the human gene pool by "removing themselves from it in a spectacularly stupid manner." Wikipedia link: Darwin Award Tags: humorous Categories (topical): Awards, Evolutionary theory Related terms: autodarwinate, Darwinism, natural selection, Nobel Prize, survival of the fittest Translations (international honours): 達爾文獎 (Chinese Mandarin), 达尔文奖 (Dá'ěrwén jiǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), Darwin-palkinto (Finnish), Darwin Award [masculine] (German), Βραβείο Δαρβίνου (Vraveío Darvínou) [neuter] (Greek), Darwin-díj (Hungarian), Пре́мия Да́рвина (Prémija Dárvina) [feminine] (Russian), Premio Darwin [masculine] (Spanish)

Proper name [German]

Forms: Darwin Awards [genitive], Darwin Awards [plural]
Etymology: Unadapted borrowing from English Darwin Award. Etymology templates: {{ubor|de|en|Darwin Award}} Unadapted borrowing from English Darwin Award Head templates: {{de-proper noun|m,s,s|nolinkhead=1}} Darwin Award m (proper noun, strong, genitive Darwin Awards, plural Darwin Awards)
  1. (humorous) Darwin Award Tags: humorous, masculine, proper-noun, strong Categories (topical): Awards
    Sense id: en-Darwin_Award-de-name--n-GbUxG Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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