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Egyptian vs Phoenix - What's the difference?

egyptian | phoenix |

As nouns the difference between egyptian and phoenix

is that egyptian is a person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent while phoenix is a mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.

As proper nouns the difference between egyptian and phoenix

is that egyptian is the Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt while Phoenix is a mythical firebird; especially the sacred one from ancient Egyptian mythology.

As an adjective Egyptian

is of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.

egyptian

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(-)
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Egypt, the Egyptian people or the Egyptian language.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person from Egypt or of Egyptian descent.
  • (obsolete) A gypsy.
  • * 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 457:
  • The people then assembled in this barn were no other than a company of Egyptians , or, as they are vulgarly called, gypsies, and they were now celebrating the wedding of one of their society.

    Derived terms

    * walk like an Egyptian

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • The Afro-Asiatic language spoken in ancient Egypt.
  • Derived terms

    * Egyptian bean * Egyptian cotton * Egyptian cross * Egyptian darkness * Egyptian thorn

    phoenix

    Alternative forms

    * phenix, , pheonix

    Noun

  • (mythology) A mythological bird, said to be the only one of its kind, which lives for 500 years and then dies by burning to ashes on a pyre of its own making, ignited by the sun. It then arises anew from the ashes.
  • (figuratively) Anything that is reborn after apparently being destroyed. Usually used as a simile.
  • Astronomers believe planets might form in this dead star's disk, like the mythical Phoenix rising up out of the ashes.
  • (mythology) A mythological Chinese chimerical bird whose physical body symbolizes the six celestial bodies.
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