- a mythical bird of great beauty fabled to live 500 or 600 years in the Arabian wilderness, to burn itself on a funeral pyre, and to rise from its ashes in the freshness of youth and live through another cycle of years: often an emblem of immortality or of reborn idealism or hope.
- a southern constellation between Hydrus and Sculptor.
- a person or thing of peerless beauty or excellence; paragon.
- a person or thing that has become renewed or restored after suffering calamity or apparent annihilation.
- Classical Mythology.
- the brother of Cadmus and Europa, and eponymous ancestor of the Phoenicians.
- a son of Amyntor and Cleobule who became the foster father of Achilles and who fought with the Greek forces in the Trojan War.
- a city in and the capital of Arizona, in the central part.
- a 13-foot (4-meter), 989-pound (445-kilogram) U.S. Navy air-to-air missile with radar guidance and a range of over 120 nautical miles.
- a legendary Arabian bird said to set fire to itself and rise anew from the ashes every 500 years
- a person or thing of surpassing beauty or quality
- a constellation in the S hemisphere lying between Grus and Eridanus
- a city in central Arizona, capital city of the state, on the Salt River. Pop: 1 388 416 (2003 est)
