Definitions for Phoenician

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Phoenician Phoe·ni·cian

Spelling: [fi-nish-uh n, -nee-shuh n]

IPA: /fɪˈnɪʃ ən, -ˈni ʃən/

Phoenician is a 10 letter English word.

You can make 358 anagrams from letters in Phoenician (acehiinnop).

Definitions for Phoenician

noun

1. a native or inhabitant of Phoenicia.
2. the extinct Semitic language of the Phoenicians.

adjective

1. of or relating to Phoenicia, its people, or their language.
2. noting or pertaining to the script used for the writing of Phoenician from the 11th century b.c. or earlier and from which were derived the Greek, Roman, and all other Western alphabets.

Origin of Phoenician

Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at Phoenicia, -an

Examples for Phoenician

We have reached now the limits of Phoenician colonisation towards the West.

Some remains of swords, probably Phoenician, have been found in Sardinia.

Phoenician women were greatly devoted to the use of personal ornaments.

The third of the Phoenician plains, as we proceed from south to north, is that of Tyre.

There are some grounds for considering Sidon to have been the most ancient of the Phoenician towns.

He is generally considered to have been of Phoenician origin.

The island of Sardinia has furnished a prodigious number of Phoenician seals.

The name, however, does not occur in the Phoenician remains which have come down to us.

They have the massive character of all early Phoenician architecture.

The extreme Phoenician city on the south was Japho or Joppa.