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Phoenician

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Noun

1. phoenician

a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.

2. phoenician

the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world

Adjective

3. phoenician

of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Phoenician

see synonyms of phoenician
noun
1. 
a member of an ancient Semitic people of NW Syria who dominated the trade of the ancient world in the first millennium bc and founded colonies throughout the Mediterranean
2. 
the extinct language of this people, belonging to the Canaanitic branch of the Semitic subfamily of the Afro-Asiatic family
adjective
3. 
of or relating to Phoenicia, the Phoenicians, or their language

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Phoenician

see synonyms of phoenician
adjective
1. 
of Phoenicia or its people, language, or culture
noun
2. 
a person born or living in ancient Phoenicia
3. 
the extinct Semitic language of the Phoenicians, closely related to Hebrew

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Phoenician

see synonyms of phoenician
adj.
Of or relating to ancient Phoenicia or its people, language, or culture.
n.
1. A native or inhabitant of ancient Phoenicia.
2. The Semitic language of ancient Phoenicia.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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