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Phoenicianism

Phoenicianism proper noun: the belief that the ancient Phoenician civilization was the primary ethnic and cultural foundation of the modern Lebanese people, as opposed to later Arab immigration.

Proper noun

Phoenicianism

  1. The belief that the ancient Phoenician civilization was the primary ethnic and cultural foundation of the modern Lebanese people, as opposed to later Arab immigration.
  2. (rhetoric) An idiom from the Phoenician language.

Origin of Phoenicianism

From Phoenician + -ism.

Questions about Phoenicianism

What does Phoenicianism mean?
Phoenicianism means the belief that the ancient Phoenician civilization was the primary ethnic and cultural foundation of the modern Lebanese people, as opposed to later Arab immigration.
What part of speech is Phoenicianism?
Phoenicianism is a proper noun.

Words near Phoenicianism in the dictionary

  1. Phoenecians
  2. phoeniceous
  3. phoenices
  4. Phoenicia
  5. Phoenician
  6. Phoenicianism
  7. Phoenicianist
  8. Phoenicianists
  9. Phoenicianness
  10. Phoenicians
  11. Phoenicid

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