Carthage
pronunciation
How to pronounce Carthage in British English:
UK [ˈkɑ:θidʒ]
How to pronounce Carthage in American English:
US [ˈkɑrθɪdʒ]
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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
Word Origin
- Carthage
- ancient city of North Africa, from Phoenician quart khadash "new town." Related: Carthaginian.
Example
- 1. A horn sounded . The carthage had sighted port .
- 2. Smith was arrested and put in jail in carthage , illinois .
- 3. Earlier writers had claimed that rome and carthage were founded in the same year , 753bc .
- 4. But rome 's destruction of carthage in 146bc reduced it to a dwindling local vernacular .
- 5. Carthage hadexpected the tributary peoples on rome 's boundaries to join the carthaginianarmies and rise against their masters ; they did not .