Cothon
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cothon is a noun meaning An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.
Meaning
An artificial, protected harbor in a Phoenician city, especially and originally the one in Carthage.
Example Sentences
It resembles the Phoenician cothons'.
The cothons at Carthage, during the Punic wars, are said to have held over two hundred ships. The small size of the Motya cothon may be accounted for by […]
Cothons - artificial inner harbours, or perhaps rather docks and repair basins - are another architectural feature ascribed to Phoenician and Punic towns […]
Word Forms
- cothons
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include cothouse, carthoun, caisson, cobhouse, cophin, copher.
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