Definitions for Phoebe

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Phoebe phoe·be

Spelling: [fee-bee]

IPA: /ˈfi bi/

Phoebe is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in Phoebe (beehop).

Definitions for Phoebe

noun

1. any of several small American flycatchers of the genus Sayornis, especially S. phoebe, of eastern North America.
2. Classical Mythology. a Titan, daughter of Uranus and Gaea and mother of Leto, later identified with Artemis and with the Roman goddess Diana.
3. Astronomy. one of the moons of Saturn.
4. Literary. the moon personified.
5. a female given name.

Origin of Phoebe

1690-1700, Americanism; imitative; spelling by influence of Phoebe

Examples for Phoebe

Remember when Chandler was sexually attracted to sharks and phoebe raised a litter of baby rats?

Her sister phoebe, heart-broken by her loss, followed soon after.

phoebe in her earnestness forgot to keep within the limitations of their dialect.

"That my girl," phoebe explained, stopping the soft pat—pat of her butter-ladle.

So when he told me, 'You can come to my show, but you can't come to see phoebe, and you can't come to see Riccardo, that was odd.

In a shocking turn, minimalist phoebe Philo presented a bold new aesthetic for Céline next spring.

There was that innocently ignoble time phoebe Buffay pretended she was a physician named Dr. Regina Phalange.

phoebe, looking at her attentively, despaired of getting any nearer the truth from any of them.

Also making Time's list are Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet and Céline's creative director, phoebe Philo.

In spite of herself, phoebe felt a trifle chilled by their lack of enthusiasm.