Carthage

[kahr-thij]

noun

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.

Related formsCar·tha·gin·i·an

[kahr-thuh-jin-ee-uh n] /ˌkɑr θəˈdʒɪn i ən/, adjective, nounpseu·do-Car·tha·gin·i·an, adjective, noun

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Examples from the Web for carthaginian

Contemporary Examples of carthaginian

His great-grandfather was the Cato of "Carthago delenda est," the driver of the third Carthaginian war.
Who Was the Real Cato?
David Frum
December 20, 2012

Historical Examples of carthaginian

This, however, was because the foreigners had missed advantages of Carthaginian standards.
In a Little Town
Rupert Hughes
He, a descendant of the companion of Aeneas, to fear the Carthaginian sword!
The Lion's Brood
Duffield Osborne
"Perolla is a good Carthaginian to-day," shouted one of his fellows.
The Lion's Brood
Duffield Osborne
Surely this could not be the Carthaginian method of announcing judgment or execution!
The Lion's Brood
Duffield Osborne
And yet, in one sense, she was better fitted than they to understand the Carthaginian.
The Lion's Brood
Duffield Osborne

British Dictionary definitions for carthaginian

Carthaginian

adjective

of or relating to Carthage or its inhabitants

noun

a native or inhabitant of Carthage

Carthage

noun

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.

carthaginian in Culture

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.