(redirected fromrising like a phoenix from the ashes) Thesaurus Encyclopedia Phoenix The capital and largest city of Arizona, in the south-central part of the state northwest of Tucson. Founded in the 1860s on the site of an ancient Hohokam settlement, it became territorial capital in 1889 and...
3.phoenix- a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years mythical being- an imaginary being of myth or fable ...
3.phoenix- a legendary Arabian bird said to periodically burn itself to death and emerge from the ashes as a new phoenix; according to most versions only one phoenix lived at a time and it renewed itself every 500 years mythical being- an imaginary being of myth or fable ...