say it: fuh-NEE-shuh
phoenicia is a noun meaning "an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean". It carries one recorded sense.
an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for phoenicia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.