CARTHAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carthage mean? 

• CARTHAGE (noun)
  The noun CARTHAGE has 1 sense:

1. an ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697

  Familiarity information: CARTHAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARTHAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient city state on the north African coast near modern Tunis; founded by Phoenicians; destroyed and rebuilt by Romans; razed by Arabs in 697

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city-state; city state (a state consisting of a sovereign city)

Meronyms (members of "Carthage"):

Carthaginian (a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage)

Holonyms ("Carthage" is a part of...):

Phenicia; Phoenicia (an ancient maritime country (a collection of city states) at eastern end of the Mediterranean)

Derivation:

Carthaginian (of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language)

 Context examples 

A strapper—a real strapper, Jane: big, brown, and buxom; with hair just such as the ladies of Carthage must have had.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)