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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 patterns displayed the dragon, the phoenix, cranes and magpies, all auspicious animals representing nobility, luck, fortune and longevity.
The phoenix was a mythical bird of ancient Egypt which reputedly burned every 500 years and rose rejuvenated from its ashes.
Symbolically as the natural ruler of Scorpio, Pluto is the phoenix bird rising from the ashes of his own self destruction.
She rises like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes of her lunacy to become the first woman psychoanalyst in Switzerland.
Cerri silently called for the phoenix who landed on a near by housetop in answer.
We can learn to rise like a phoenix from the ashes, arising as part of a better world and a better life for one and all.

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