Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun punic_war

1 sense of punic war

Sense 1
Punic War -- (one of the three wars between Carthage and Rome that resulted in the destruction of Carthage and its annexation by Rome; 264-241 BC, 218-201 BC, 149-146 BC)
       INSTANCE OF=> war, warfare -- (the waging of armed conflict against an enemy; "thousands of people were killed in the war")