PUNIC WAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Punic War mean? 

• PUNIC WAR (noun)
  The noun PUNIC WAR has 1 sense:

1. one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC

  Familiarity information: PUNIC WAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PUNIC WAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Instance hypernyms:

war; warfare (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy)

Meronyms (parts of "Punic War"):

Aegadean Isles; Aegates Isles (islands west of Sicily (now known as the Egadi Islands) where the Romans won a naval victory over the Carthaginians that ended the first Punic War in 241 BC)

Cannae (ancient city is southeastern Italy where Hannibal defeated the Romans in 216 BC)

Battle of Lake Trasimenus; Lake Trasimenus (a battle in 217 BC in which Hannibal ambushed a Roman army led by Flaminius)

Metaurus River (a battle during the second Punic War (207 BC); Hannibal's brother Hasdrubal was defeated by the Romans which ended Hannibal's hopes for success in Italy)

battle of Zama; Zama (the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War)