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HANNIBAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hannibal mean? 

HANNIBAL (noun)
  The noun HANNIBAL has 2 senses:

1. general who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War; crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend Carthage and was defeated (247-182 BC)play

2. a town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twainplay

  Familiarity information: HANNIBAL used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HANNIBAL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

General who commanded the Carthaginian army in the second Punic War; crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans but was recalled to defend Carthage and was defeated (247-182 BC)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Carthaginian (a native or inhabitant of ancient Carthage)

full general; general (a general officer of the highest rank)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A town in northeast Missouri on the Mississippi River; boyhood home of Mark Twain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

town (an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city)

Holonyms ("Hannibal" is a part of...):

Missouri; MO; Mo.; Show Me State (a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union)


 Context examples 


Next, I saw Hannibal passing the Alps, who told me “he had not a drop of vinegar in his camp.”

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)



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