phoenicia

1. 1.

   an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean

   SynonymsPhenicia

   Broadergeographical area

   PartsCarthageUtica

Other forms of phoenicia

plural

phoenicias·

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.

Questions about phoenicia

What does phoenicia mean?

phoenicia means "an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean".

How many syllables are in phoenicia?

phoenicia has 3 syllables: phoe-ni-cia. The stress falls on "ni". In IPA it is /fəˈniʃə/.

What is another word for phoenicia?

Close synonyms include Phenicia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is phoenicia a common word?

phoenicia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.