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DictionaryphoenixReborn mythical bird
noun

phoenix

FEE-niks/ˈfiːnɪks/

A mythical bird reborn from its own ashes.

In the legend, a phoenix rises from its own ashes.

A magnificent mythical bird rises directly from a mound of its own ashes, its lower body still forming from ash and embers while its fully renewed head and wings spread above.
Etymology
phoenixGreekmythical bird

Greek phoinix named the legendary bird said to burn itself on a funeral pile and emerge young again from its ashes.

In context

Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art13:40
Beneath the phoenix is a scroll with the words, je renais de mes cendres, I rise from my ashes.
Georgian Provocations II: A Black King in Georgian London: British Art and Postrevolutionary Haiti

More examples

  • The painting shows a phoenix emerging from glowing ashes.
  • Two golden phoenixes decorate the book's cover.
  • Like a phoenix, the town rises again after the fire.

Forms

phoenix · phoenixes