Definitions for Phenix

Phenix phe·nix

Spelling: [fee-niks]
IPA: /ˈfi nɪks/

Phenix is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in Phenix (ehinpx).

Definitions for Phenix

noun

  1. phoenix.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) 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.
  3. genitive Phoenicis [fee-nahy-sis,, -nee-] /fiˈnaɪ sɪs,, -ˈni-/ (Show IPA). (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a southern constellation between Hydrus and Sculptor.
  4. a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon.
  5. a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation.

Origin of Phenix

before 900; Latin Greek phoînix a mythical bird, purple-red color, Phoenician, date palm; replacing Middle English, Old English fēnix Medieval Latin; Latin as above

Examples for Phenix

The argument was pretty, but it was better to expound the law after the phenix had changed hands.

Chiron fashioned the infancy of Achilles, and phenix succeded hym.

His eyebrows were beautiful like those of the silk-butterflies, and his eyes were long-slitted like the eyes of the phenix.

Shall it reduce all to ashes, and hope to rise like the phenix from the pyre?

One night he drove from a house in phenix City, Alabama, he was rebuilding to his base in Fort Benning, Georgia.

He began to press either for the surrender of the phenix by the English, or for their departure from his port.

The Dutch brought the phenix into the roadstead, and began ostentatiously to fit her as a man-of-war.

Three days later, police arrested a 23-year old Iraq War veteran named Courtney Lockhart in phenix City, Alabama.

This was the phenix, which was destined to be the cause of some exciting events further on.

Word Value for Phenix
Scrable

18

Words with friends

19

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