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Phoenician

3 ENTRIES FOUND:
  1. Phoenician (noun)
  2. Phoenix (geographical name)
  3. Phoenician alphabet (noun)

Phoe·ni·cian

noun \fi-ˈnē-shən, -ˈni-\

Definition of PHOENICIAN

1
: a native or inhabitant of ancient Phoenicia
2
: the Semitic language of ancient Phoenicia
— Phoenician adjective
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First Known Use of PHOENICIAN

14th century

Rhymes with PHOENICIAN

accretion, Capetian, completion, concretion, deletion, depletion, excretion, Helvetian, Lucretian, Ossetian, repletion, secretion, suppletion, Tahitian, Venetian

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