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"word": "like a phoenix from the ashes"
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"word": "phoenix palm"
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"word": "Texas phoenix palm decline"
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"etymology_text": "From Old English and Old French fenix, from Medieval Latin phenix, from Latin phoenīx, from Ancient Greek φοῖνιξ (phoînix), from Egyptian bnw (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.",
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"(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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"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "sq",
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"word": "feniks"
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"code": "ar",
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"roman": "fīnīks",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "فِينِيكْس"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "fuqnus",
"sense": "mythological bird",
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"word": "فُقْنُس"
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"roman": "pʻyunik",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "փյունիկ"
},
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "féniks",
"sense": "mythological bird",
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"word": "фе́никс"
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"word": "fènix"
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"lang": "Cherokee",
"roman": "tsulehisanvhi",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ"
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"code": "cmn",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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},
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"roman": "fènghuáng",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "凤凰"
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "ფენიქსი"
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"roman": "pwiniksi",
"sense": "mythological bird",
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{
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"tags": [
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"word": "עוֹף חוֹל"
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"code": "io",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "fenixo"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"tags": [
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "火の鳥"
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"alt": "ほうおう",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "鳳凰"
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"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "fenikkusu",
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"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "불사조"
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{
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"word": "бийдаякъ"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "lo",
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"roman": "nok fī nik sa",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "ນົກຟີນິກຊ໌"
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{
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"code": "lv",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "fēnikss"
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "ᦷᦓᧅᦝᦲᦓᦲᧅ"
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"word": "føniks"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "ققنس"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "peniks"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "นกฟีนิกซ์"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "Anka"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "Zümrüdüanka"
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{
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"word": "konrul"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "ur",
"lang": "Urdu",
"roman": "qaqnus",
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "ug",
"lang": "Uyghur",
"roman": "sumurgh",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "سۇمۇرغ"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "vo",
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "mythological bird",
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],
"word": "ffenics"
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{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "yi",
"lang": "Yiddish",
"roman": "Simurg",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "סימוּרג"
},
{
"_dis1": "72 1 27 1 0",
"code": "yi",
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"roman": "Feniks",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "פֿעניקס"
},
{
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"code": "za",
"lang": "Zhuang",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "funghvuengz"
}
],
"wikidata": [
"Q48444"
]
},
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"examples": [
{
"text": "Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90",
"text": "Many of the legitimate nightclubs of today sprang like legalized phoenixes from the still-hot ashes of the speakeasies of prohibition days.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
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"Terms with Slovak translations",
"Terms with Slovene translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Swedish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Turkish translations",
"Terms with Urdu translations",
"Terms with Uyghur translations",
"Terms with Volapük translations",
"Terms with Welsh translations",
"Terms with Yiddish translations",
"Terms with Zhuang translations",
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"word": "like a phoenix from the ashes"
},
{
"word": "phoenix palm"
},
{
"word": "Texas phoenix palm decline"
}
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"text": "Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.",
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"ref": "1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 90",
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"ref": "2019, Roderick Beaton, Greece: Biography of a Modern Nation, Penguin, published 2020, page 116",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"code": "af",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "փյունիկ"
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"code": "chr",
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"roman": "tsulehisanvhi",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "ᏧᎴᎯᏌᏅᎯ"
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"code": "cmn",
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{
"code": "da",
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{
"code": "ka",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"code": "he",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"code": "hi",
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{
"code": "hi",
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{
"code": "hi",
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{
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"code": "hu",
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{
"code": "is",
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},
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"code": "io",
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{
"code": "it",
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],
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{
"code": "ja",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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{
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"code": "ja",
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{
"code": "ko",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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},
{
"code": "ko",
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"code": "kum",
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{
"code": "lo",
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"word": "ນົກຟີນິກຊ໌"
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{
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{
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"code": "fa",
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{
"code": "pt",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"tags": [
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"code": "pt",
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{
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"code": "pt",
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"tags": [
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{
"code": "sh",
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"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sh",
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{
"code": "sh",
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{
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{
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{
"code": "es",
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{
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{
"code": "tl",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "peniks"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "นกฟีนิกซ์"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "Anka"
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{
"code": "tr",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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{
"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "tr",
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{
"code": "ur",
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{
"code": "ug",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
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},
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"code": "vo",
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{
"code": "cy",
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{
"code": "yi",
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"sense": "mythological bird",
"word": "סימוּרג"
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{
"code": "yi",
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{
"code": "za",
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"ref": "2019 December 17, Noel Gladstone, Carrie Fellner, “Small business flattened by 'dodgy' builders in phoenixing epidemic”, in The Sydney Morning Herald",
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"ref": "2020 September 24, Anne Davies, “Phoenixing: how unscrupulous dealers rise debt-free from the ashes of failed companies”, in The Sydney Morning Herald",
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