phoenix
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Is phoenix a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (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.Examples: "burn the long-lived phoenix in her blood"
2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.Examples: "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."figuratively
3. (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.Chinese
4. (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.Examples: "The national currency, the phoenix, which had been established by Kapodistrias, was renamed after an ancient Greek coin, the drachma."historical
5. (obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.Examples: "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."obsolete
verb (English)
1. (Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liabilityExamples: "Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association CEO John Winter said phoenixing has been "endemic" for decades."; "The ATO defines iIllegal^([sic – meaning illegal]) phoenixing as when a new company is created to continue the business of a company that has been deliberately liquidated to avoid paying its debts, including taxes, creditors and employee entitlements."Australia
name (English)
1. (mythology) A mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.
2. (astronomy) A spring constellation of the southern sky, said to resemble the mythical bird. It lies north of Tucana.
3. (Greek mythology) A character in the Iliad and father of Adonis in Greek mythology or a different character in Greek mythology, brother of Europa and Cadmus.Greek
4. (as "the Phoenix") A nickname sometimes used for Japan after World War II.
Definition source: Wiktionary