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A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
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name
The name of two male characters in Greek mythology:
A companion of Achilles to the Trojan War in the Iliad, son of Amyntor and father of Adonis.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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The name of two male characters in Greek mythology:
A son of Agenor and Telephassa, brother of Europa and Cadmus, eponym of Phoenicia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Greek
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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name
A place name:
A number of places in Turkey:
A port town of ancient Lycia, in modern Antalya Province, Turkey; modern Finike.
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A place name:
A number of places in Turkey:
A town of ancient Caria, near modern-day Taşlıca Marmaris district, Muğla Province, Turkey.
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A place name:
A number of places in Greece:
A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Sfakia, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Loutro.
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A place name:
A number of places in Greece:
A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Agios Vasileios, Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Foinikas.
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
The capital city of Arizona, and the county seat of Maricopa County.
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name
A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A neighbourhood of Edison Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Sayreville borough, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Oswego County, New York.
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A place name:
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Jackson County, Oregon.
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A place name:
A number of places in Canada:
A community in Clearwater County, Alberta.
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A place name:
A number of places in Canada:
A ghost town in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia.
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name
A place name:
A town north-west of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
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name
A surname.
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name
A male given name.
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A female given name.
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively
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noun
A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Chinese
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, mythology, philosophy, sciences
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noun
A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
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Usage: historical
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noun
A marvelous person or thing.
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Usage: obsolete
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noun
A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.
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A German breed of long-tailed chicken.
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A white variety of grape of German origin used for winemaking.
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verb
To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
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Usage: Australia
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noun
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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: capital of Arizona
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Broader terms: state capital
noun
a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: constellation
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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
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: mythical being
noun
a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: genus Phoenix
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Broader terms: monocot genus, liliopsid genus
History
From Latin phoenīx, Phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνῐξ (phoînĭx), Φοῖνῐξ (Phoînĭx).
From 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 (boinu, “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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