Meaning of Phoenix | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.
2. Obsolete spelling of Phoenix.
   alt-of, obsolete
3. Archaic spelling of phoenix.
   alt-of, archaic
4. A German breed of long-tailed chicken.
5. 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.
6. A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
7. A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.
8. Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
   figuratively
9. A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus.
   Greek
10. A white variety of grape of German origin used for winemaking.
11. A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
    Chinese
12. A place name:
13. A number of places in Turkey:
14. A port town of ancient Lycia, in modern Antalya Province, Turkey; modern Finike.
15. A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
    historical
16. A town of ancient Caria, near modern-day Taşlıca Marmaris district, Muğla Province, Turkey.
17. A marvelous person or thing.
    obsolete
18. A number of places in Greece:
19. A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Sfakia, Chania regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Loutro.
20. Alternative letter-case form of Phoenix (“A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.”).
    alt-of
21. A port town of ancient Crete, in the modern municipality of Agios Vasileios, Rethymno regional unit, Crete, Greece; modern Foinikas.
22. A number of places in the United States:
23. The capital city of Arizona, and the county seat of Maricopa County.
24. An unincorporated community in Putnam County, Georgia.
25. A village in Thornton Township, Cook County, Illinois.
26. An unincorporated community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana.
27. An unincorporated community in Baltimore County, Maryland.
28. An unincorporated community in Houghton Township, Keweenaw County, Michigan.
29. An unincorporated community in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
30. A neighbourhood of Edison Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
31. A neighborhood of Sayreville borough, Middlesex County, New Jersey.
32. A village in Oswego County, New York.
33. A city in Jackson County, Oregon.
34. A number of places in Canada:
35. A community in Clearwater County, Alberta.
36. A ghost town in the Regional District of Kootenay Boundary, British Columbia.
37. A town north-west of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
38. A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
39. A surname.
40. A male given name.
41. A female given name.

Equivalents

Examples

“burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood”

“Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.”

“Lord Allerton was that modern phœnix, a young man, without a single objection.”

“Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.”

“The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma.”

“He may not be a phœnix of cleverness in your sense; his profession is different; but it would be all the better for you to talk a little on his subjects.”

“A man was arrested Saturday in College Park, Georgia, after he was accused of throwing a sex toy on to the court during the Dream’s 29 July game with the Golden State Valkyries, according to a police report. The report said he threw another sex toy during the Dream’s game on Friday against the Phoenix Mercury. […] Another man in Phoenix was arrested after police say he threw a sex toy in the crowd at a Mercury game on Tuesday.”

“A liuing Drolerie : now I will beleeue That there are Vnicornes : that in Arabia There is one Tree, the Phœnix throne, one Phœnix At this houre reigning there.”

“The Clementine epistle (which, however, maintains not only the History of Judith, but also a plurality of worlds separated from each other by the Oceanus, and in a manner both of minute detail and of solemn asseveration the Nimrodian and Pantheistic fable of the bird Phœnix) was perhaps concocted for such a purpose.”

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