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phoenix
1[ fee-niks ]
noun
- Sometimes Phoenix. a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope.
- genitive Phoenicis [fee-, nahy, -sis, -, nee, -]. (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a southern constellation between Hydrus and Sculptor.
- a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon.
- a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation.
Phoenix
2[ fee-niks ]
noun
- Classical Mythology.
- the brother of Cadmus and Europa, and eponymous ancestor of the Phoenicians.
- a son of Amyntor and Cleobule who became the foster father of Achilles and who fought with the Greek forces in the Trojan War.
- a city in and the capital of Arizona, in the central part.
- Military. a 13-foot (4-meter), 989-pound (445-kilogram) U.S. Navy air-to-air missile with radar guidance and a range of over 120 nautical miles.
Phoenix
1/ ˈfiːnɪks /
noun
- a city in central Arizona, capital city of the state, on the Salt River. Pop: 1 388 416 (2003 est)
Phoenix
2/ ˈfiːnɪks /
noun
- a constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Grus and Eridanus
phoenix
3/ ˈfiːnɪks /
noun
- a legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise anew from the ashes every 500 years
- a person or thing of surpassing beauty or quality
phoenix
2- A mythical bird that periodically burned itself to death and emerged from the ashes as a new phoenix. According to most stories, the rebirth of the phoenix happened every five hundred years. Only one phoenix lived at a time.
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Example Sentences
Dangerfield must have been expecting something to go crossways in Phœnix and had some of his misguided friends watching McKibben.
Then you're the chap who covered the trail between Phœnix and Potter's Gap yesterday afternoon?
Jem, who had driven the car, and the other man who had left Phœnix with him, were sitting on the steps of the tienda.
Bascomb, knowing the gang was soon going to change its location, sent East and had the girl come to Phœnix.
Two days later Ollie Dangerfield was laid away under the palms and umbrella-trees in the Phœnix cemetery.
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