— Carthaginian /kahr'theuh jin"ee euhn/ , adj. , n.
/kahr"thij/ , n.
1. an ancient city-state in N Africa, near modern Tunis: founded by the Phoenicians in the middle of the 9th century B.C.; destroyed in 146 B.C. in the last of the Punic Wars.
2. a town in central Missouri. 11,104.