hannibal

1. 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)

   BroadergeneralCarthaginian
2. 2.

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

   Broadertown

   Part ofMissouri

Other forms of hannibal

plural

hannibals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hannibal

What does hannibal mean?

hannibal means "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)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hannibal?

hannibal has 3 syllables: han-ni-bal. The stress falls on "han". In IPA it is /ˈhænɪbəl/.

Is hannibal a common word?

hannibal is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.