Hamilcar Syllabification: (Ha·mil·car)Pronunciation: /həˈmilˌkär/Definition of Hamilcar (circa 270–229 bc), Carthaginian general, father of Hannibal. He fought Rome in the first Punic War and negotiated the terms of peace after the defeat of the Carthaginians. Hamilcar in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Hamilcar in the British & World English dictionary