Hannibal

plural Hannibals

1. countableuncountableA male given name from Punic of mostly historical use. Most notably borne by the Carthaginian general Hannibal, son of Hamilcar.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA city in Marion County and Ralls County, Missouri.

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      Hannibal, as a city, may have many sins to answer for, but ingratitude is not one of them, or reverence for the great men she has produced, and as the years go by her greatest son, Mark Twain, or S. L. Clemens as a few of the unlettered call him, grows in the estimation and regard of the residents of the town he made famous and the town that made him famous.

      1909, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], quoting Courier-Post, “Is Shakespeare Dead?”, in What Is Man? And Other Essays, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published May 1917, page 374

   2. countableuncountableA town and village therein, in Oswego County, New York.
   3. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community and census-designated place in Ohio Township, Monroe County, Ohio.
   4. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in the town of Cleveland, Taylor County, Wisconsin.