phoenixes
SayFEE-nik-siz/ˈfinɪksɪz/
- 1Plural of phoenix. Use it when you mean more than one.
The castle walls were painted with red and gold phoenixes.
After the great fire, both towns rose again like phoenixes.
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- 2Third-person singular present of phoenix. Use it after he, she, it or one person or thing.
When the builder phoenixes his company, the workers lose their pay.
A boss who phoenixes a business can be banned from running another one.
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phoenixes is a form of phoenix
phoenix, noun: A bird in old stories that lives for 500 years, then burns and is born again from its ashes. Full entry
- Forms
- phoenix also pluralphoenixes plural
- Spelling
- phoenix → phoenixes: add -es
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