Phoenician
[fi'niʃiәn]
Definition
(noun.) the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world.
(noun.) a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C..
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants .
Editor: Pierre--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to Phoenica.
(n.) A native or inhabitant of Phoenica.
Checker: Muriel
Examples
- This inscription, which you find to be Phoenician, is, I think, near _Taunton_ (not Jannston, as you write it). Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Subsequently they established colonies along the French Riviera and founded Marseilles upon the site of an older Phoenician colony. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He adapts mythology like the Homeric poems to the wants of the state, making 'the Phoenician tale' the vehicle of his ideas. Plato. The Republic.
- The Phoenicians, the Carthagenians, the English, Moors, Romans, all have battled for Tangier--all have won it and lost it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He may have been personally acquainted with some of these Phoenicians whose skeletons we have been examining. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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