Definitions for Phoenix
Phoenix
phoe·nix
Spelling: [fee-niks]
IPA: /ˈfi nɪks/
Phoenix is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.
You can make 109 anagrams from letters in Phoenix (ehinopx).
Definitions for Phoenix
noun
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(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.
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genitive Phoenicis [fee-nahy-sis,, -nee-] /fiˈnaɪ sɪs,, -ˈni-/ (Show IPA). (initial capital letter) Astronomy. a southern constellation between Hydrus and Sculptor.
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a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon.
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a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation.
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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.
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a city in and the capital of Arizona, in the central part.
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Military. a 13-foot (4 meters), 989-pound (445 kg), U.S. Navy air-to-air missile with radar guidance and a range of over 120 nautical miles.
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a state in SW United States. 113,909 sq. mi. (295,025 sq. km). Capital: Phoenix.
Abbreviation: AZ (for use with zip code), Ariz.
Origin of Phoenix
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 Phoenix
Three on-the-record stories from a family: a mother and her daughters who came from phoenix.
Now that they had the isolation chamber, it was up to phoenix to find a plane to carry it.
He came to phoenix once and we went up to see him, and they got so crazy that I ended up trying to hitchhike home.
Major Vernon had risen, resplendent as the phoenix, from the ashes of his old clothes.
From this to the hour of a late dinner, the phoenix Park became his resort.
But you know, I had only one other hero in my life acting and that was River [phoenix].
In that connection he mentions a sharp who lives in phoenix.
But, before setting out, they all helped phoenix to build a habitation.
You'll get your ticket as usual and a reservation at the Tycho Hotel in phoenix.
When a client needs to move something by air, phoenix gets it done.