PHOENIX


Meaning of PHOENIX in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ fi:nɪks ]

( phoenixes)

1.

A phoenix is an imaginary bird which, according to ancient stories, burns itself to ashes every five hundred years and is then born again.

N-COUNT : usu sing

2.

If you describe someone or something as a phoenix , you mean that they return again after seeming to disappear or be destroyed. ( LITERARY )

Out of the ashes of the economic shambles, a phoenix of recovery can arise.

N-SING

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