phoenix
/ˈfiːnɪks/
Meaning
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 ashe
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.
A marvelous person or thing.
A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.
To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
A marvelous person or thing.
A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.
To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
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.
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.
Word Forms
phoenix
phoenixes
phoenices
phenix
phœnix
phoenixing
phoenixed
Etymology
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.