Boost your vocab and unleash your potential!

Recently viewed words:
Definitions of phoenician
  1. noun
    a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.
    type of:
  2. noun
    the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world
  3. of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants
Definition that contains phoenician
  • tyre a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
  • sur a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks
  • moloch god of the Canaanites and Phoenicians to whom parents sacrificed their children
  • ishtar Babylonian and Assyrian goddess of love and fertility and war; counterpart to the Phoenician Astarte
  • tripoli the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
  • carthage an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697
  • punic the Phoenician dialect of ancient Carthage
  • astarte an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar
  • tarabulus al-gharb the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC
  • dagan god of agriculture and earth; counterpart of Phoenician Dagon
My lists:
Recently viewed words: