📚 Phoenix, noun. 🔉 /ˈfiːnɪks/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: (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. ❗️ Examples: 1. The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, died and was reborn from its own ashes. 2. Unicorns, elves, leprechauns, phoenixes, griffins, and humans all existed very peacefully together on Earth, until evil was set loose. 3. The phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt which reputedly burned every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from its ashes. 4. Like the mythical phoenix, which arose in its own ashes, the ram was chosen as a natural symbol of resurrection because of its ability, when shorn, to replenish its stock of wool. 5. A phoenix is a bird that rises from the ashes of its deceased predecessor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic