( sometimes initial capital letter ) 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.

( initial capital letter ) Astronomy . 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.

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nonesuch , paragon , bird , statue , symbol