Carthage
[kahr-thij]
- 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.
- a town in central Missouri.
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Examples from the Web for carthaginian
Contemporary Examples
His great-grandfather was the Cato of "Carthago delenda est," the driver of the third Carthaginian war.
Historical Examples
This, however, was because the foreigners had missed advantages of Carthaginian standards.
In a Little TownRupert Hughes
He, a descendant of the companion of Aeneas, to fear the Carthaginian sword!
The Lion's BroodDuffield Osborne
"Perolla is a good Carthaginian to-day," shouted one of his fellows.
The Lion's BroodDuffield Osborne
Surely this could not be the Carthaginian method of announcing judgment or execution!
The Lion's BroodDuffield Osborne
And yet, in one sense, she was better fitted than they to understand the Carthaginian.
The Lion's BroodDuffield Osborne
Carthaginian
- of or relating to Carthage or its inhabitants
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- a native or inhabitant of Carthage
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Carthage
- 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 adSee also Punic Wars
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Word Origin and History for carthaginian
Carthage
ancient city of North Africa, from Phoenician quart khadash "new town." Related: Carthaginian.
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Carthage
[(kahr-thij)]
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.
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