phoenix
A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years…A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
Meaning
6 sensesA mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
Phönix
фе́никсféniks, жар-пти́цаžar-ptíca
феніксféniks
(figuratively)Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
фе́никсféniks
(Chinese)A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
(historical)A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.
(obsolete)A marvelous person or thing.
- the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation
- a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
- a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years
- a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
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Origin
From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, froFrom Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian b-n:nw*w-G31 (bnw, “grey heron”). Doublet of Bennu. The grey heron was venerated at Heliopolis and associated in Egypt with the cyclical renewal of life because the bird rises in flight at dawn and migrates back every year in the flood season to inhabit the Nile waters.
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plural: phoenix / phoenixes / phoenicesSynonyms
2 synonyms- the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation:capital of Arizona
- a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa:genus Phoenix
Word family
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1 lessons- A1Plural nouns — Because its plural is irregular