Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun phoenix

4 senses of phoenix

Sense 1
Phoenix, capital of Arizona -- (the state capital and largest city located in south central Arizona; situated in a former desert that has become a prosperous agricultural area thanks to irrigation)
       INSTANCE OF=> state capital -- (the capital city of a political subdivision of a country)

Sense 2
phoenix, genus Phoenix -- (a large monocotyledonous genus of pinnate-leaved palms found in Asia and Africa)
       => monocot genus, liliopsid genus -- (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Sense 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)

Sense 4
Phoenix -- (a constellation in the southern hemisphere near Tucana and Sculptor)
       INSTANCE OF=> constellation -- (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)