Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient city and state of northern Africa on the Bay of Tunis northeast of modern Tunis. It was founded by the Phoenicians in the ninth century BC and became the center of a maritime empire in the Mediterranean after the sixth century BC. The city was destroyed by the Romans at the end of the Third Punic War (146 BC) but was rebuilt by Julius Caesar and later (AD 439–533) served as capital of the Vandals before its virtual annihilation by the Arabs (698).
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- proper noun An ancient city in
North Africa , in modernTunisia .
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- noun 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
Etymologies
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CARTHAGE -- Robert K. Stewart, the accused slayer of eight people in a Carthage nursing home Sunday, is being held at the hospital of Central Prison, where court-appointed attorneys got a judge's order to see him today.
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CARTHAGE -- Police have recovered multiple weapons after a man shot and killed seven residents and one staff member at a Carthage nursing home, according to the town's police chief.
unknown title 2009
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Then they commenced to build a city which they called Carthage, and even now they were engaged in raising its walls.
Story of Aeneas Michael Clarke 1880
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Today, revisiting the life of the town’s most celebrated citizen, the word Carthage sounds prophetic: to those who are familiar with her life, it seems apt that Virginia Cherrill should have emerged from a place connected by its name to the beautiful Queen Dido.
Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009
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Humanity might be “sitting on a ticking time bomb,” but Gore’s home in Carthage is sitting on a zinc mine.
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Albert Walton, a Korean War veteran in Carthage and a friend of
Heroes or Villains? 2010
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For example, when you're excavating in Carthage, as I have done, you suddenly come across this black tide mark – and that is the destruction layer of the city: 146BC.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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Something of a throwback to another era himself, he has directed archaeological digs in Carthage and Rome, lectured at Cambridge University and now teaches classics at the University of Sydney.
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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Pride of Carthage is not an attempt to turn/revise
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Pride of Carthage is my first offering of the style of novel I want to build my career on.
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