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phoenix
phoe·nix / ˈfēniks/
• n. (in classical mythology) a unique bird that lived for five or six centuries in the Arabian desert, after this time burning itself on a funeral pyre and rising from the ashes with renewed youth to live through another cycle.
- ∎ a person or thing regarded as uniquely remarkable in some respect.
PHRASES:rise like a phoenix from the ashes:
emerge renewed after apparent disaster or destruction.
From: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | Date: 2009 |
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