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Word: phoenix
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Meaning:
Noun:
- figuratively Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile. ''Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.''
- mythology 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.
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Proper noun:
- A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
- constellation A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
- greekmyth A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus
- mythology A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology
- The capital city of Arizona, United States.
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