Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city and state on the northern coast of Africa, near the modern Tunis, founded by the Phenicians of Tyre in the ninth century B.C. See
Punic . - noun An inhabitant or a native of Carthage.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a pertaining to ancient Carthage, a city of northern Africa.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of ancient Carthage or its people or their language
- noun a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage
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Examples
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Puritans create images of hats that sound like hannibal and hannibal of carthaginian flats
Oozin creakybliss 2007
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Puritans create images of hats that sound like hannibal and hannibal of carthaginian flats
Archive 2007-02-01 creakybliss 2007
Gidlund commented on the word carthaginian
This dialogue from the play Sleuth provides a good example:
MILO. I understand. How much sacking do you want done?
ANDREW. A decent bit, I think. A few chairs on their backs, some china ornaments put to the sword. You know—convincing but not Carthaginian.
January 29, 2011
Gidlund commented on the word carthaginian
From John Cassidy, writing in the New Yorker, October 10, 2011:
"Outraged by this Carthaginian settlement, John Maynard Keynes wrote his first best-seller, 'The Economic Consequences of the Peace,' warning that the Versailles Treaty would prove disastrous for the victors as well as for the defeated."
November 10, 2011