phoenician

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a member of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the first millennium B.C.
noun the extinct language of an ancient Semitic people who dominated trade in the ancient world
adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Phoenicia or its inhabitants

Others contended that the Phoenicians themselves delved here. — An African Adventure, Isaac Frederick Marcosson
They had a kind of writing, too--before the Phoenicians. — The Passionate Friends, H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
--Christian Union. THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN MAGO; _OR, A PHOENICIAN EXPEDITION, B.C. — Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's, Frances Hodgson Burnett

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