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单词 Phoenician
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Definition of Phoenician in English:

Phoenician

noun fəˈnɪʃ(ə)nfəˈniːʃ(ə)n
  • 1A member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, Tyre, was sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.

    腓尼基人(居住于腓尼基及其殖民地的闪族人,靠贸易和制造业繁荣,直至首都提尔于公元前332年被亚历山大大帝洗劫)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Beginning in the ninth century BC, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Celts entered the Iberian Peninsula.
    • The Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines ruled all or parts of Libya.
    • Some of the elements of marketing orientation can be traced far back to ancient Greece, the Phoenicians, and the Venetian traders.
    • The Phoenicians in southern Lebanon traded spices as far west as Spain and Cornwall.
    • The Egyptians, Phoenicians and Hittites practised it as a special ritual in conjunction with the presentation of the dowry.
    • In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths.
    • In ancient times the islands were inhabited by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians.
    • Leathernecked Marines mingled with Greeks and Persians, Egyptians and Carthaginians, Phoenicians and Arabs, sending shore parties to what could be the hottest spots and securing the beacheads.
    • So were suggestions to re-create the old map of the Middle East with kingdoms of Hittites, Phoenicians and Ammonites.
    • Once the trade capital of East Africa, Zanzibar attracted Sumerians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Arabs, Chinese and Malays, giving the city a distinct culture and history from mainland Tanzania.
    • I was in Beirut, at the National Museum, enjoying the wonders of the ancient Phoenicians with my husband.
    • Carthage was a city-state on the Greek model that had been founded by Phoenicians from Tyre in the 8th century.
    • Her theories are reminiscent of the diffusionist theories that argue that Native Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and/or the Chinese.
    • The catalog of every possible unfortunate scenario will complete the work of the ancient Phoenicians and the early Christian theologians.
    • Use of saffron was especially noticeable in the west of England, and some believe that it had arrived there long before the 14th century via the Phoenicians and their tin trade with Cornwall.
    • Originally the Phoenicians, and later the Carthaginians, established ports and trading settlements on the island.
    • Dave and I established a programme of conservation for the site, and we were also keen to dispel the myth of the colonial period that the site could not have been built by indigenous people but only by outsiders such as Phoenicians or Arabs.
    • Renan, too, remarks that the population of Galilee was very mixed, and that the province had many inhabitants who were not Jews, but Phoenicians, Syrians, Arabs, and even Greeks.
    • This includes uncovering and preserving the most marvellous sites dating back thousands of years from the Phoenicians to the Romans.
    • The growth of his power, allied to Theron's, alarmed Anaxilas of Messana, Terillus of Himera, and the Phoenicians; and from 483, Carthage prepared for war.
  • 2mass noun The Semitic language of the Phoenicians, written in an alphabet that was the ancestor of the Greek and Roman alphabets.

    腓尼基语(腓尼基人所用闪族语,其字母是希腊和罗马字母的雏形)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Pleas in Aztec, in Phoenician, English, Germanic- and forgotten Spanish dialects muttered in her ears.
    • Thus it is much closer to other Northwest Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Phoenician, than to languages outside that group, such as Arabic or Babylonian.
    • It was the ultimate ancestor of all later alphabets, such as those used for Phoenician, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, English, French, Russian, the languages of the Indian subcontinent, and those of Ethiopia.
    • I mean, it's from the Amorites and from the Arcadians ever earlier that we have the Semitic language coming in, which is the basis for Phoenician, for Aramaic, for Hebrew and for the Arabic languages.
    • He uttered some unintelligible sounds, which might have been Hebrew or Phoenician, but completed his victory over his audience, who could make nothing of what he said, beyond the constant repetition of the names Apollo and Asclepius.
adjective fəˈnɪʃ(ə)nfəˈniːʃ(ə)n
  • Relating to Phoenicia, its people, or its language.

    (与)腓尼基(有关)的;(与)腓尼基殖民地(有关)的;(与)腓尼基人(有关)的;(与)腓尼基语(有关)的;(与)腓尼基字母(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't know if my Sicilian family is Greek and Phoenician in descent.
    • With it appears the figure of Astarte, Phoenician goddess of fertility and passion whose symbol is the twin horns of the bull.
    • The first part of the journey was along highways that led to large Phoenician freeways.
    • In 1902, Neal wrote a report stating that the architecture was clearly Phoenician or Arabian.
    • The initial impetus for this remarkable commercial adventure was the Assyrian demand for large quantities of silver which the Phoenician middle-men obtained for them from the metal-rich region of south-western Iberia.
    • It's much more complicated and interesting than that, with evidence of Chinese, West African, Viking, Phoenician and other colonies and camps all around North and South America, throughout history.
    • Exiled during his youth, which fell in a period of Phoenician domination, he gathered some 50 followers at Soli in Cilicia, and with their help established himself as ruler of Salamis in 411.
    • Numerous shrines honored all kinds of deities - Roman, Greek, Babylonian, Phoenician, Syrophoenician, all kinds.
    • The Garonne, Loire, Seine, and Rhine led them to the northern Atlantic communities in contrast to the Phoenician sea route which led to Iberia.
    • In Phoenician eyes, none of this was terribly important: kidnapping women was bad, but not the sort of thing to get very upset about, for it is obvious that that no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be.
    • The site became important for Phoenician trade too, and among a number of notable finds there is a hoard of 400 Phoenician ivories.
    • The Phoenician colony of Carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and Greek cities such as Syracuse, in Sicily, rivalled the biggest of the city-states in Greece.
    • It was most probably the early Phoenician settlers at Carthage who introduced viticulture to that region of North Africa.
    • Next summer, the group will assist Mr Ballard in searches for Phoenician and Minoan ships in the Mediterranean.
    • Caesarea stands as a monument to assimilation, the capital of an independent Berber kingdom of North Africa, where Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Egyptian influences found an equal home.
    • However, Phoenician ships use to import tin from Cornwall to make bronze during these times.
    • We are the descendants of one nation, Spain, which cannot be understood without its racial multiplicity and Celt-Iberian, Greek, Phoenician, Roman, Arabic, Judaic, Gothic linguistic system.
    • Some of them are Phoenician and Roman and even Chinese; beads were currency for salt.
    • The founder of Stoicism was Zeno, a Cypriot of Phoenician or Jewish descent.
    • There is speculation that the island site destroyed by Esarhaddon and by later further earthquakes may have contained the palace of the Phoenician king and other Phoenician buildings and fortifications.

Rhymes

academician, addition, aesthetician (US esthetician), ambition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, cosmetician, diagnostician, dialectician, dietitian, Domitian, edition, electrician, emission, fission, fruition, Hermitian, ignition, linguistician, logician, magician, mathematician, Mauritian, mechanician, metaphysician, mission, monition, mortician, munition, musician, obstetrician, omission, optician, paediatrician (US pediatrician), patrician, petition, physician, politician, position, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, Titian, tuition, volition

Definition of Phoenician in US English:

Phoenician

noun
  • 1A member of a Semitic people inhabiting ancient Phoenicia and its colonies. The Phoenicians prospered from trade and manufacturing until the capital, Tyre, was sacked by Alexander the Great in 332 BC.

    腓尼基人(居住于腓尼基及其殖民地的闪族人,靠贸易和制造业繁荣,直至首都提尔于公元前332年被亚历山大大帝洗劫)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The growth of his power, allied to Theron's, alarmed Anaxilas of Messana, Terillus of Himera, and the Phoenicians; and from 483, Carthage prepared for war.
    • Beginning in the ninth century BC, Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, and Celts entered the Iberian Peninsula.
    • Carthage was a city-state on the Greek model that had been founded by Phoenicians from Tyre in the 8th century.
    • Use of saffron was especially noticeable in the west of England, and some believe that it had arrived there long before the 14th century via the Phoenicians and their tin trade with Cornwall.
    • Some of the elements of marketing orientation can be traced far back to ancient Greece, the Phoenicians, and the Venetian traders.
    • Her theories are reminiscent of the diffusionist theories that argue that Native Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the Egyptians, and/or the Chinese.
    • The Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Vandals, and Byzantines ruled all or parts of Libya.
    • This includes uncovering and preserving the most marvellous sites dating back thousands of years from the Phoenicians to the Romans.
    • I was in Beirut, at the National Museum, enjoying the wonders of the ancient Phoenicians with my husband.
    • In ancient times the islands were inhabited by the Phoenicians and Carthaginians.
    • Once the trade capital of East Africa, Zanzibar attracted Sumerians, Assyrians, Phoenicians, Arabs, Chinese and Malays, giving the city a distinct culture and history from mainland Tanzania.
    • The Egyptians, Phoenicians and Hittites practised it as a special ritual in conjunction with the presentation of the dowry.
    • So were suggestions to re-create the old map of the Middle East with kingdoms of Hittites, Phoenicians and Ammonites.
    • Originally the Phoenicians, and later the Carthaginians, established ports and trading settlements on the island.
    • The Phoenicians in southern Lebanon traded spices as far west as Spain and Cornwall.
    • Dave and I established a programme of conservation for the site, and we were also keen to dispel the myth of the colonial period that the site could not have been built by indigenous people but only by outsiders such as Phoenicians or Arabs.
    • Renan, too, remarks that the population of Galilee was very mixed, and that the province had many inhabitants who were not Jews, but Phoenicians, Syrians, Arabs, and even Greeks.
    • Leathernecked Marines mingled with Greeks and Persians, Egyptians and Carthaginians, Phoenicians and Arabs, sending shore parties to what could be the hottest spots and securing the beacheads.
    • The catalog of every possible unfortunate scenario will complete the work of the ancient Phoenicians and the early Christian theologians.
    • In antiquity Gibraltar belonged in turn to the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, and Visigoths.
  • 2The Semitic language of the Phoenicians, written in an alphabet that was the ancestor of the Greek and Roman alphabets.

    腓尼基语(腓尼基人所用闪族语,其字母是希腊和罗马字母的雏形)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Thus it is much closer to other Northwest Semitic languages such as Hebrew or Phoenician, than to languages outside that group, such as Arabic or Babylonian.
    • I mean, it's from the Amorites and from the Arcadians ever earlier that we have the Semitic language coming in, which is the basis for Phoenician, for Aramaic, for Hebrew and for the Arabic languages.
    • It was the ultimate ancestor of all later alphabets, such as those used for Phoenician, Hebrew, Greek, Arabic, Latin, English, French, Russian, the languages of the Indian subcontinent, and those of Ethiopia.
    • Pleas in Aztec, in Phoenician, English, Germanic- and forgotten Spanish dialects muttered in her ears.
    • He uttered some unintelligible sounds, which might have been Hebrew or Phoenician, but completed his victory over his audience, who could make nothing of what he said, beyond the constant repetition of the names Apollo and Asclepius.
adjective
  • Relating to Phoenicia or its colonies, or its people, language, or alphabet.

    (与)腓尼基(有关)的;(与)腓尼基殖民地(有关)的;(与)腓尼基人(有关)的;(与)腓尼基语(有关)的;(与)腓尼基字母(有关)的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • I don't know if my Sicilian family is Greek and Phoenician in descent.
    • It was most probably the early Phoenician settlers at Carthage who introduced viticulture to that region of North Africa.
    • There is speculation that the island site destroyed by Esarhaddon and by later further earthquakes may have contained the palace of the Phoenician king and other Phoenician buildings and fortifications.
    • The site became important for Phoenician trade too, and among a number of notable finds there is a hoard of 400 Phoenician ivories.
    • The founder of Stoicism was Zeno, a Cypriot of Phoenician or Jewish descent.
    • Caesarea stands as a monument to assimilation, the capital of an independent Berber kingdom of North Africa, where Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Egyptian influences found an equal home.
    • In Phoenician eyes, none of this was terribly important: kidnapping women was bad, but not the sort of thing to get very upset about, for it is obvious that that no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be.
    • The Garonne, Loire, Seine, and Rhine led them to the northern Atlantic communities in contrast to the Phoenician sea route which led to Iberia.
    • Exiled during his youth, which fell in a period of Phoenician domination, he gathered some 50 followers at Soli in Cilicia, and with their help established himself as ruler of Salamis in 411.
    • It's much more complicated and interesting than that, with evidence of Chinese, West African, Viking, Phoenician and other colonies and camps all around North and South America, throughout history.
    • Some of them are Phoenician and Roman and even Chinese; beads were currency for salt.
    • The first part of the journey was along highways that led to large Phoenician freeways.
    • With it appears the figure of Astarte, Phoenician goddess of fertility and passion whose symbol is the twin horns of the bull.
    • The Phoenician colony of Carthage became an imperial centre in its own right, and Greek cities such as Syracuse, in Sicily, rivalled the biggest of the city-states in Greece.
    • The initial impetus for this remarkable commercial adventure was the Assyrian demand for large quantities of silver which the Phoenician middle-men obtained for them from the metal-rich region of south-western Iberia.
    • However, Phoenician ships use to import tin from Cornwall to make bronze during these times.
    • Next summer, the group will assist Mr Ballard in searches for Phoenician and Minoan ships in the Mediterranean.
    • We are the descendants of one nation, Spain, which cannot be understood without its racial multiplicity and Celt-Iberian, Greek, Phoenician, Roman, Arabic, Judaic, Gothic linguistic system.
    • Numerous shrines honored all kinds of deities - Roman, Greek, Babylonian, Phoenician, Syrophoenician, all kinds.
    • In 1902, Neal wrote a report stating that the architecture was clearly Phoenician or Arabian.
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