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What is a phoenix?

What is a phoenix? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (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.
  2. (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.
  3. (Chinese) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.
  4. (historical) A Greek silver coin used briefly from 1828 to 1832, divided into 100 lepta.
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The award is named in recognition of the mythological phoenix, a bird that lived five centuries, died and was reborn from its own ashes.
He looked down and saw the phoenix talisman that he had found on the ocean floor.
James Joyce, for one, used to quest exhaustively for every fresh word as if it were a phoenix feather.
Working with the RDA we can help Drake Street rise like a phoenix from the ashes.
The phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt which reputedly burned every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from its ashes.
But his legacy remains and the 80s saw rock music rising like a phoenix from the ashes.

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