Phoenix
['fiːnɪks] or ['finɪks]
Definition
(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.
(noun.) a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor.
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa.
Typist: Silvia--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Same as Phenix.
(n.) A genus of palms including the date tree.
Checked by Brady
Definition
n. a fabulous bird said to have existed for 500 years all alone in the wilderness and after burning itself on a funeral pile to have risen from its own ashes—hence the emblem of immortality: a paragon.
Edited by Ben
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird. '
Editor: Wendell
Examples
- Have you seen much of your scientific phoenix, Lydgate, lately? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Ocean, The Phoenix, The Consort, The Dolphin, were passed in turns; but The Vivid was my ship, and it seemed she lay further down. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- There is a certain bird called a phoenix. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Business is business, and there is nothing like punctuality, especially in a phoenix. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In it this account of the fabled phoenix occurs: 1. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I also became once more known to his sister, Miss Micawber, in whom, as Mr. Micawber told us, 'her mother renewed her youth, like the Phoenix'. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Osborn