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# phoebe

noun (a phoebe, phoebes); proper noun (Phoebe — a name)

«phoebe» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. (a name) Phoebe is a girl's name, from an old Greek word meaning bright or shining. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#m1)
2. A phoebe is a small grey-brown bird of North America that catches flies in the air and wags its tail. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#m2)
3. (space) Phoebe is one of the moons of Saturn, a dark, small moon that goes round the planet backwards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#m3)
4. (myths) In Greek myths Phoebe was a Titan, a goddess linked with the Moon and light. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#m4)

### In the lessons

In stories Phoebe is most often just a character's first name, so it tells you who is speaking or acting. In nature lessons about North American birds the phoebe is a common backyard bird named after its call, which sounds like "fee-bee". In space lessons Phoebe appears in lists of Saturn's many moons.

### Examples

- Phoebe sat next to me in maths today. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x1)
- My best friend Phoebe has a dog called Biscuit. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x2)
- A phoebe built its nest under our porch roof. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x3)
- The phoebe called "fee-bee, fee-bee" from the fence. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x4)
- Phoebe is one of more than a hundred moons of Saturn. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x5)
- Phoebe orbits Saturn in the opposite direction to most of its moons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x6)
- In the Greek myth, Phoebe was the grandmother of Apollo and Artemis. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x7)
- LETO (Latona) was the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/#x8)

### Note

Say it "FEE-bee": the final e is spoken, like in "Chloe". As a name it takes a capital letter; the bird (a phoebe, two phoebes) does not. Do not invent facts about a person called Phoebe — it is just a name. Not the same as "Phobos", a moon of Mars.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «phoebe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/phoebe/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«phoebe» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/phoebe.html) on Mova free.