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phoenix
1[ fee-niks ]
noun
genitive Phoenicis
- 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/ ˈھːɪ /
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/ ˈھːɪ /
noun
- a constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Grus and Eridanus
Phoenix
3/ ˈھːɪ /
noun
- a city in central Arizona, capital city of the state, on the Salt River. Pop: 1 388 416 (2003 est)
Phoenix
1- Capital city of Arizona .
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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To “rise like a phoenix from the ashes” is to overcome a seemingly insurmountable setback.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of phoenix1
First recorded before 900; from Latin, from Greek îԾ “a mythical bird, purple-red color,” Phoenician, “date palm”; replacing Middle English, Old English ŧԾ, from Medieval Latin; Latin as above
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of phoenix1
Old English fenix, via Latin from Greek phoinix; identical in form with Greek Phoinix Phoenician, purple
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The brutal phoenix of American history remains constant in Nguyen’s novel.
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"I was determined not to let him win," she said, adding that although she believed she was going to die that night she would "rise like a phoenix from the ashes".
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“It feels like this is a phoenix that’s risen up out of the fire,” she said.
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“They were going to show the world that San Francisco had risen like a phoenix from the ashes.”
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“In order to rise From its own ashes,” she wrote in the sentence I’m seeing bandied about the most, “A phoenix First Must Burn.”
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