Carthage

[kahr-thij]

noun

1. an ancient city-state in N Africa, near modern Tunis: founded by the Phoenicians in the middle of the 9th century b.c.; destroyed in 146 b.c. in the last of the Punic Wars.

2. a town in central Missouri.

Carthage

/ ˈkɑːθɪdʒ /

noun

1. an ancient city state, on the N African coast near present-day Tunis. Founded about 800 _bc by Phoenician traders, it grew into an empire dominating N Africa and the Mediterranean. Destroyed and then rebuilt by Rome, it was finally razed by the Arabs in 697 _ad See also Punic Wars

Carthage

1. An ancient city in north Africa, established by traders from Phoenicia. Carthage was a commercial and political rival of Rome for much of the third and second centuries b.c. The Carthaginian general Hannibal attempted to capture Rome by moving an army from Spain through the Alps, but he was prevented and finally defeated in his own country. At the end of the Punic Wars, the Romans destroyed Carthage, as the senator Cato had long urged. The character Dido, lover of Aeneas in the Aeneid, was a queen of Carthage.

Other Word Forms

• Carthaginian adjective
• pseudo-Carthaginian adjective

Example Sentences

Price jumps for memory chips "are huge and the trend is continuing", said Stephen Wu, founder of the Carthage Capital investment fund.

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Scipio went directly to New Carthage, the nexus of Carthaginian power in the Iberian peninsula.

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The Carthage Eagles, who will make a seventh appearance at the World Cup next year, scored 22 goals in 10 qualifiers and did not concede.

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Hollywood, really, and it took me a while because in "The Aeneid" — and Danny Ryan is Aeneas — Aeneas goes into a cave shipwrecked in Carthage and there are murals of the Trojan War.

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Danny’s journey to Hollywood, Winslow explained, echoes Aeneas’ journey to Carthage.

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