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How to pronounce “phoenix”
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- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of phoenix with real speech in context.
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- Unauthorized Bread
a luxury bunker just outside of Phoenix and repair to it
- Definition summary
- (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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How to pronounce phoenix
Unauthorized Bread

a luxury bunker just outside of Phoenix and repair to it
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “phoenix”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (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.
- (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed.
- (Chinese mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies; a fenghuang.
- (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
- (obsolete) A marvelous person or thing.
- Alternative letter-case form of Phoenix (“A geometer moth of species Eulithis prunata.”).
- [Verb]
- (Australia) To transfer assets from one company to another to dodge liability
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