Carthage

Definition: Carthage

Carthage

Noun

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.

Date "Carthage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

"Carthage" is a common misspelling or typo for: cartage.

Crosswords: Carthage

English words defined with "Carthage": Carthaginian ♦ Dido ♦ Hannibal ♦ Publius Cornelius Scipio, Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major, Punic, Punic Wars ♦ Scipio, Scipio Africanus, Scipio Africanus Major, Scipio the Elder ♦ Utica. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Carthage": Cadmeans, Capua, Carthage of the North ♦ Ethbaal, Eth-baal ♦ Fathers of the Church ♦ Kingly Titles ♦ Scipio dismissed the Iberian Maid. (references)

Etymologies containing "Carthage": Punic. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Carthage" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

French (Carthage).

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	La Fille de Carthage (1924)
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Domain	Title
Books	Carthage & Her Remains (reference) Carthage Missouri (Images of America) (reference) The Carthage Tragedy (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Carthage and the Phoenicians (reference) Lost Treasures of the Ancient World 2: Carthage - A Journey Back in Time (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette; Le Troyens à Carthage (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Old fire bell, Carthage, Texas.Credit: Library of Congress.		Roadside shrine near Carthage, New York. Jefferson County.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Mr. Merton Hoover, postmaster, sixty-three years old, who loses his position through the wiping out of the town of Sterlingville, New York, in the Pine Camp expansion area. He is moving to West Carthage, New York.Credit: Library of Congress.		Mr. and Mrs. Merton Hoover in their store and post office in Sterlingville, New York. The Hoovers are moving out of the Pine Camp expansion area to a small house in West Carthage, New York.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Carthage, Tunisia. American Army chaplains inspecting the ruins of the Roman arena where Christian martyrs were thrown to the lions. The altar later erected on the site had been used as a bivouac by German troops.Credit: Library of Congress.		Carthage, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Caius Marius on the ruins of Carthage / J. Vanderlyn pt. ; S.A. Schoff sc.Credit: Library of Congress.		Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram Smith in Carthage jail, June 27th, 1844 / G.W. Fasel pinxit ; on stone by C.G. Crehen ; print. by Nagel & Weingaertner, N.Y.Credit: Library of Congress.
	Carthage - World Transportation Commission members.Credit: Library of Congress.		Statue of bas-relief recently exhumed from the ruins of Carthage and restored.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Carthage has no ideal.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Tunisia	Recorded history in Tunisia begins with the arrival of Phoenicians, who founded Carthage and other North African settlements in the 8th century BC. Carthage became a major sea power, clashing with Rome for control of the Mediteranean until it was defeated and captured by the Romans in 146 B.C. The Romans ruled and settled in North Africa until the 5th century when the Roman Empire fell and Tunisia was invaded by European tribes, including the Vandals. (references)
Travel	Tunisia	HOUSES IN THE TUNIS NEIGHBORHOODS OF MUTUELLEVILLE, NOTRE DAME, CARTHAGE, SIDI BOU SAID, LA SOUKRA, LA MARSA, AND GAMMARTH ARE COMPARABLE TO OR BETTER THAN MANY SUBURBAN U.S. COMMUNITIES. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Carthage" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 96.00% of the time. "Carthage" is used about 50 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	96%	48	49,194
Lexical Verb (base form)	2%	1	339,140
Noun (singular)	2%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	50	N/A

1. Carthage, AR (city, FIPS 11830)
Location: 34.07225 N, 92.55555 W
Population (1990): 452 (171 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 71725
Country: USA

2. Carthage, IL (city, FIPS 11527)
Location: 40.41432 N, 91.13513 W
Population (1990): 2657 (1316 housing units)
Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 62321
Country: USA

3. Carthage, IN (town, FIPS 10612)
Location: 39.73722 N, 85.57158 W
Population (1990): 887 (355 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 46115
Country: USA

4. Carthage, MO (city, FIPS 11656)
Location: 37.16770 N, 94.31354 W
Population (1990): 10747 (4725 housing units)
Area: 16.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 64836
Country: USA

5. Carthage, MS (city, FIPS 11780)
Location: 32.74404 N, 89.53345 W
Population (1990): 3819 (1578 housing units)
Area: 24.2 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Country: USA

6. Carthage, NC (town, FIPS 10680)
Location: 35.34735 N, 79.41826 W
Population (1990): 976 (438 housing units)
Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 28327
Country: USA

7. Carthage, NY (village, FIPS 12683)
Location: 43.98478 N, 75.60464 W
Population (1990): 4344 (1751 housing units)
Area: 6.5 sq km (land), 0.4 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 13619
Country: USA

8. Carthage, SD (city, FIPS 10220)
Location: 44.16886 N, 97.71398 W
Population (1990): 221 (157 housing units)
Area: 3.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 57323
Country: USA

9. Carthage, TN (town, FIPS 11280)
Location: 36.25678 N, 85.94372 W
Population (1990): 2386 (1080 housing units)
Area: 7.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Country: USA

10. Carthage, TX (city, FIPS 13108)
Location: 32.15178 N, 94.33692 W
Population (1990): 6496 (2776 housing units)
Area: 26.8 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Zip Code(s): 75633
Country: USA

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Expressions: Carthage

Expressions using "Carthage": South Carthage ♦ West Carthage. Additional references.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Carthage

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
carthage missouri	244	carthage jail	8
carthage	215	ancient carthage city northwest	8
carthage college	176	carthage mill	8
carthage texas	91	carthage newspaper	7
carthage new york	77	carthage university	7
carthage north carolina	55	battle carthage salammbo	7
carthage illinois	48	carthage council	6
carthage mississippi	48	carthage k12.mo.us	6
carthage tennessee	42	carthage college kenosha	6
carthage press	39	carthage tunisia	6
hannibal carthage	24	carthage college home page	5
ancient carthage	16	carthage chapel mo moment precious	5
carthage map	14	carthage missouri moment precious	5
carthage hotel	13	carthage courier	5
carthage high school	12	carthage equipment	5
carthage indiana	12	carthage ford	5
carthage mo moment precious	9	carthage dido queen	5
carthage isd	9	the battle of carthage	4
ancient carthage city nw	8	city of carthage	4
ancient carthage map	8	carthage south dakota	4
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Modern Translations: Carthage

Language		Translations for "Carthage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		Carthago. (various references)

Dutch		Carthago. (various references)

Esperanto		Kartago. (various references)

French		Carthage. (various references)

German		Karthago. (various references)

Greek		ίαρχηδών, ίαρχηδόνα. (various references)

Hungarian		Karthágó. (various references)

Italian		Cartagine. (various references)

Manx		Yn Chairtaig. (various references)

Pig Latin		arthagecay

Romanian		Cartagina. (various references)

Russian		Карфаген (Carthago). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Carthage

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Carthago, karthÃ¢gÃ´. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: Carthage

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-r-t"
	-1 letter: cartage, trachea.
	-2 letters: carate, chaeta, charge, gather, rachet.
	-3 letters: aargh, aceta, agate, areca, arhat, cager, carat, caret, carte, cater, chare, chart, cheat, chert, crate, earth, garth, gerah, grace, grate, great, hater, heart, ratch, rathe, reach, react, reata, recta, retag, retch, tache, targe, teach, terga, theca, trace.
	-4 letters: ache, acre, acta, agar, ager, agha, arch.
	-5 letters: aah.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-g-h-r-t"
	+3 letters: gnatcatcher, reattaching.
	+4 letters: archegoniate, cartographer, charactering, galactorrhea, gnatcatchers.
	+5 letters: archaeologist, archegoniates, bacteriophage, bacteriophagy, cartographers, cartographies, cinematograph, galactorrheas, lethargically, straightlaced.
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