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say it: fuh-NEE-shuhn
phoenician is a noun and adjective meaning "a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.". It carries 3 recorded senses.
a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.
the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world
Phoenicia
of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants
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 phoenician 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.