PHOENICIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phoenicia mean? 

• PHOENICIA (noun)
  The noun PHOENICIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: PHOENICIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOENICIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Phenicia; Phoenicia

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Phoenicia"):

Carthage (an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697)

Utica (an ancient city on the north coast of Africa (northwest of Carthage); destroyed by Arabs around 700 AD)

Domain member region:

Phoenician (the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world)

Ashtoreth; Astarte (an ancient Phoenician goddess of love and fertility; the Phoenician counterpart to Ishtar)

Dagon (god of agriculture and the earth; national god of Philistines)