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Definition: Cardinal |
CardinalAdjective1. Serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure". 2. Being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers". Noun1. (Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes. 2. The number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order. 3. A variable color averaging a vivid red. 4. Crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cardinal" was first used: sometime in the early 12th century. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | It is unlucky to dream you see a cardinal in his robes. You will meet such misfortunes as will necessitate your removal to distant or foreign lands to begin anew your ruined fortune. For a woman to dream this is a sign of her downfall through false promises. If priest or preacher is a spiritual adviser and his services are supposed to be needed, especially in the hour of temptation, then we find ourselves dreaming of him as a warning against approaching evil. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Slang in 1811 | CARDINAL. A cloak in fashion about the year 1760. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A cardinal is an official of the second-highest rank of the Roman Catholic church, inferior in rank only to the Pope. The cardinals serve a number of functions: they advise the Pope, they run the Vatican administration and the Roman Curia (the government of the Church), and they elect the Pope. They collectively form the College of Cardinals. New cardinals are appointed by the Pope. Cardinals are distinguished by their bright red vestments, the color symbolizing their willingness to die for the faith if necessary.The cardinals did not always elect the Pope: the Pope was originally elected by the people of Rome, but during the medieval times the right of election was gradually restricted until only cardinals possessed it. But the current Pope or any future Pope could substitute another body of electors for the College of Cardinals at any time; in fact there have been proposals in the past to have the Synod of Bishops perform this function (the proposals have not been adopted because, among other reasons, the Synod of Bishops can only meet when called by the Pope).
In early modern times, English and French monarchs had cardinals as their chief ministers - Wolsey in England, Richelieu and Mazarin in France. These men were cardinals, not because of their religious duties, but because it allowed their kings to pay them from church revenues. Rome accepted the loss of some revenue in order to protect the rest of its property and revenue.
The word 'cardinal' comes from Latin for door-hinge, for the cardinals are supposed to be the 'hinges' of the church. The Latin form of the title is Cardinalis.
According to Canon 350 of the Code of Canon Law, the College of Cardinals is divided into three orders, viz., the episcopal order (cardinal bishops), the presbyteral order (cardinal priests), and the diaconal order (cardinal deacons). The cardinal bishops are those cardinals to whom the Pope assigns the title of a suburbicarian church, and such Patriarchs of the Eastern Rite Churches as the Pope sees fit to appoint to the College (Eastern patriarchs retain the titles of their patriarchal sees). The cardinal priests and cardinal deacons are each assigned a title or deaconry in Rome by the Pope. Note that cardinal priests and cardinal deacons are actually bishops.
Although originally any Catholic male could be appointed to the College, today only bishops are normally created cardinals. Canon 351 specifically requires that a cardinal at least be in the order of priesthood, and those who are not already bishops must receive episcopal consecration. A recent example is Rev. Avery Dulles, S.J, who was a priest at the time of his elevation to Cardinal in 2001. He successfully petitioned the Pope for a dispensation from episcopal consecration due to advanced age.
Pope Sixtus V limited the number of cardinals to 70 (6 cardinal bishops, 50 cardinal priests, 14 cardinal deacons), after the College had expanded in the 16th century. Popes since John XXIII have disregarded this limitation in order to make the college of cardinals a more representative body. Only those cardinals under age of eighty (nominally limited in number to 120 by Paul VI, but John Paul II has disregarded this as well) participate in the election of the pope. The six cardinal bishops elect a Dean of the College of Cardinals to be their head (the dean is primus inter pares, "first among equals"); the election must be approved by the Pope. The present Dean is His Eminence Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Pope John Paul II elevated an additional 31 cardinals in a consistory on October 21, 2003, bringing the current total to 135.
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Theorem: The following are equivalent for uncountable cardinals: See also
Weakly compact cardinal
(a) κ is weakly compact
(b) for every λ<κ, integer n, and function f: &kappan → λ there is a set of cardinality κ that is homogeneous for f
(c) κ is inaccessible and every tree of height κ either has a path or a level of cardinality at least κ
(d) Every linear order of cardinality κ has an ascending or a descending sequence of order type κ
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Synonyms: CardinalSynonyms: central (adj), fundamental (adj), key (adj), primal (adj), cardinal grosbeak (n), cardinal number (n), carmine (n), redbird (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: ordinal (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clergy | Pope, Papa, pontiff, high priest, cardinal; ancient flamen, flamen; confessor, penitentiary; spiritual director. |
Clothing | Cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma |
Direction | Point of the compass, cardinal points; North East, South, West; N by E, ENE, NE by N, NE; rhumb, azimuth, line of collimation. |
Importance | Paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling; of vital; importance. |
Great thing, great point; main chance, "the be all and the end all "; cardinal point; substance, gist; (essence); sum and substance, gravamen, head and front; important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part; half the battle; sine qua non; breath of one's nostrils; (life);cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus; keynote, keystone; corner stone; trump card; (device); salient points. | |
Inexpedience | Superexcellent; of the first water; first-rate, first-class; high-wrought, exquisite, very best, crack, prime, tiptop, capital, cardinal; standard; (perfect); inimitable. |
Virtue | Morals; ethics; (duty); cardinal virtues. |
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Screenplays | That is the cardinal sin, Ray. (Rain Man; writing credit: Ronald Bass) Ah, the cardinal sin (A Day in Summer; writing credit: J.L. Carr; Alan Plater) In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and to keep them coming back (Casino; writing credit: Nicholas Pileggi) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Cardinal À nous quatre (1974) The Cardinal (1963) The Cardinal (1936) Cardinal Richelieu (1935) The Sleeping Cardinal (1931) | |
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 | Sunset over the marsh at Cardinal Cove. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Cardinal flowers - Lobelia cardinalis. Near the Moonakis River. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |
 | Apogon sp. Cardinal Fish. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |  | Figure 57. Puhler sounder, described by Christian Puhler in 1563, repeated an idea first put forth by Cardinal Nicholas Pusanus a century earlier. The principle, was to attach a float to a weight making it heavier than water. Upon striking bottom, the float would detach. Depth would be derived from round- trip travel time. It is unknown if this device was ever field tested. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 58. Albert sounder. The idea of Cardinal Cusanus, mentioned in the previous figure, was re-examined by the Italian architect Leo Battista Alberti and subsequentlydescribed by Giuseppe Biancani in 1635. The design was even simpler than Puhler's device. A simple rule of three was devised to derive the depth from the travel time to the bottom and return of the float. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Cardinal in a conifer in a backyard. Credit: Unknown. |
 | School children in front of St. James Cathedral receiving the blessing of the Papal Legate, Cardinal Vannutelli, Sept. 9, 1910--21st International Eucharistic Congress, Montreal, Canada. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Cardinal Satolli. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Cardinal John McCloskey, head-and-shoulders portrait, three-quarters to the left. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Herbert Adams and Arvia MacKaye as Cardinal Bird and Hummingbird, characters from Percy MacKaye's Sanctuary: a bird masque. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Cardinal De Richelieu | To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. |
| Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. | |
Cardinal J. Newman | Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. |
| It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. | |
Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz | She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. |
Cardinal Richelieu | Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime. |
Francis Cardinal Spellman | Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. |
Lord Byron | The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go. |
Thomas Hobbes | Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues. |
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Magna Carta | 1215 | Know that, having regard to God and for the salvation of our soul, and those of all our ancestors and heirs, and unto the honor of God and the advancement of his holy Church and for the rectifying of our realm, we have granted as underwritten by advice of our venerable fathers, Stephen, archbishop of Canterbury, primate of all England and cardinal of the holy Roman Church, Henry, archbishop of Dublin, William of London, Peter of Winchester, Jocelyn of Bath and Glastonbury, Hugh of Lincoln, Walter of Worcester, William of Coventry, Benedict of Rochester, bishops; of Master Pandulf, subdeacon and member of the household of our lord the Pope, of brother Aymeric (master of the Knights of the Temple in England), and of the illustrious men William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, William, earl of Salisbury, William, earl of Warenne, William, earl of Arundel, Alan of Galloway (constable of Scotland), Waren Fitz Gerold, Peter Fitz Herbert, Hubert De Burgh (seneschal of Poitou), Hugh de Neville, Matthew Fitz Herbert, Thomas Basset, Alan Basset, Philip d'Aubigny, Robert of Roppesley, John Marshal, John Fitz Hugh, and others, our liegemen. (reference) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Among other personages of authority he went to Cardinal Fesch on behalf of his parishioners |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Exeunt CARDINAL and HASTINGS Say, uncle Gloucester, if our brother come, Where shall we sojourn till our coronation |
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Health | Pancreatic beta-cell dysfunction and insulin resistance are the cardinal pathophysiologic features of NIDDM. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Cuba | Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino characterized the Party document as "antireligious" and a throw-back to the pre-1992 constitution. (references) |
Cuba | The Cardinal again suggested that to overcome these misconceptions the Church and State should engage in a "profound discussion" on the meaning of religion in society. (references) | |
China | The director of the Government's RAB had labeled the fellowship publicly as a "cult" at the end of 1999. Roman Catholic Bishop Zeng Jingmu, released from a labor camp in 1998, reportedly was rearrested in Jiangxi in September 2000 during the visit of a high-ranking foreign Cardinal; the Government denied those reports. (references) | |
Economic History | The Holy See | The current incumbent, Angelo Cardinal Sodano, is the Holy See's equivalent of a prime minister. (references) |
The Holy See | The Secretariat of State, under the Cardinal Secretary of State, directs and coordinates the Curia. (references) | |
Hungary | The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty, was sentenced to life imprisonment. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belize | As a result, the authorities discharged assistant inspectors Eli Salazar and Cardinal Smith from the police force. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, -- recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Let us remember the timeless wisdom of Cardinal Bernardin, when facing the end of his own life. |
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| "Cardinal" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 66.41% of the time. "Cardinal" is used about 642 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 66.41% | 427 | 13,408 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 18.04% | 116 | 29,969 |
| Noun (singular) | 15.55% | 100 | 32,668 |
| Total | 100.00% | 642 | N/A |
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| The following table summarizes the usage of "cardinal" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cardinal | Last name | 1,000 | 7,622 |
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| USA | Cardinal Financial Corporation |
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Expressions using "cardinal": anterior cardinal vein ♦ blue cardinal flower ♦ Cardinal Bellarmine ♦ Cardinal bird ♦ cardinal compass point ♦ Cardinal dean ♦ cardinal directions ♦ cardinal effect ♦ cardinal error ♦ Cardinal flower ♦ Cardinal grosbeak ♦ cardinal heading ♦ Cardinal Newman ♦ cardinal number ♦ Cardinal numbers ♦ cardinal point ♦ cardinal point effect ♦ cardinal points ♦ cardinal principles ♦ cardinal red ♦ cardinal richelieu ♦ Cardinal signs ♦ cardinal sin ♦ cardinal stimuli ♦ Cardinal teeth ♦ cardinal tetra ♦ cardinal vein ♦ Cardinal veins ♦ cardinal vicar ♦ cardinal virtue ♦ Cardinal virtues ♦ Cardinal winds ♦ common cardinal vein ♦ eastern cardinal ♦ northern cardinal ♦ posterior cardinal vein. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "cardinal": Cardinal-archbishop, cardinal-bird, cardinal-bishop, Cardinal-prince, cardinal-red. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "cardinal"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Themelor (basal, basic, constitutive, essential, fundamental, main, primal, primary, prime, principal, radical, seminal, ultimate, underlying), Thelbësor (elemental, essential, imperative, mattery, overriding, radical, vital), Kryesor (arch, arterial, basal, capital, central, chief, focal, foremost, fundamental, general, governing, grand, great, key, keynote, leading, main, major, pivotal, predominant, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, topmost, trunk), Kardinal, I Horizontit, E Kuqe E Ndezur (scarlet). (various references) | |
Arabic | كاردينالي, جوهري (essential, fundamental, intrinsic, intrinsical, main, material, overriding, pivotal, prime, quintessential, radical, substantial), الكاردينال, الجهات الأصلية, أحمر مصفر, أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), أصلي العدد, رئيسي (arch, arterial, broad, central, chief, foremost, fundamental, head on, key-, leading, main, major, master, masterful, premier, primal, primary, prime, principal, sovereign, staple). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярко червен Цвят, чинка (chaffinch, green linnet, greenfinch), Основен, Кардинален, Кардинал, "лавен, 'ажен. (various references) | |
Chinese | 主要 (largely, main, mainly, major, masterly, mostly, Predominant, Primarily, Primary, Principal). (various references) | |
Czech | Základní (basal, basic, elementary, essential, fundamental, funded, overriding, primary, primitive, principal, radical, rudimentary, standard, staple, ultimate, underlying), Kardinál, Hlavní (big, capital city, chief, decuman, essential, leading, magistral, main, major, prime, principal, staple, star). (various references) | |
Danish | cardinal effect (cardinal effect), verdenshjørner (cardinal directions), spektralrene grundstimuli (cardinal stimuli), skarlagensrød tunge (cardinal tongue), skarlagen lobelia (cardinal-flower), retningsgivende rentesats (cardinal rate), retningsgivende rente (cardinal rate), kardinal-tunge (cardinal tongue), kardinale væsker (cardinal humours), kardinale elementer (cardinal elements), hovedkurs (cardinal heading), ekkoforstærkende effekt (cardinal point effect). (various references) | |
Dutch | cardinaal effect (cardinal effect), spiltarief (cardinal rate), spilrente (cardinal rate), scharlaken lobelia (cardinal-flower), roodkuifkardinaal (red-crested cardinal), kardinale sappen (cardinal humours), kardinaalstong (cardinal tongue), hoofdkoers (cardinal heading), hoofdkleurprikkels (cardinal stimuli), groene kardinaal (green cardinal, yellow cardinal), grauwe kardinal (red-crested cardinal). (various references) | |
Farsi | کاردینال , سهره کاکل قرمزامریکاءی , عدداصلی , اساسی (Basal, Basic, Earthshaking, Fundametal, Ground, Material, Meaty, Net, Pivotal, Primordial, Substantial, Vital), اعداداصلی , اصلی (Arch, Basic, Elementary, Essential, Fundametal, Genuine, Germinal, Head, Immanent, Ingrown, Inherent, Initial, Innate, Intrinsic, Main, Net, Original, Primary, Prime, Primordial, Principal, Seminal). (various references) | |
Finnish | kardinaali. (various references) | |
French | cardinal (cardinal sign). (various references) | |
German | Kardinal, Haupt- (arch-, chief, chief-, general, leading, main, major, paramount, primary, prime, principal), Grundsätzlich (absolutely, as a basic principle, basic, categorical, categorically, foregone, fundamental, in principle, on principle, principally, ultimate). (various references) | |
Greek | καρδινάλιος, Θεμελιώδησ, ίύριοσ (Don, Lord, Mister, Monsieur, Senor, Signior, Signor, Sir), ίαρδινάλιοσ, ρωτεύων. (various references) | |
Hebrew | ־ו " (Gage), ַשמן, ִ'מון, קר"י ל, ׂקרי, ״אשי. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sarkalatos (fundamental, pivotal), bíboros. (various references) | |
Indonesian | yang penting, kardinal. (various references) | |
Italian | cardinale. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 紅 鳥 , 枢機卿 , カーソル強調 (car chase, car train, card, card loan, card system, cardigan, cart, carton, cartoon, cartridge, curd, cursored emphasis, curtain, curtain antenna, curtain call, curtain lecture, curtain wall, passenger and freight train). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | すうききょう, すうきけい, "うか"ちょう, カーディナル . (various references) | |
Manx | undinagh (basic, firsthand, fundamental, intrinsic, staple), doo-scarleodagh, cardinaal. (various references) | |
Papago | sipuk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ardinalcay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | cardinal (number sign), cardeal (emperor, red bird), principal (boss, broad, central, chief, essential, firm in one's principles, first, flyaway, foremost, head, high, highlight, keynote, king, leading, main, major, parent, pivotal, preparative, primal, slip-on, substantial), primordial (head, main, overriding, prime, primordial), número cardinal (cardinal number), escarlate (carnation, damask, judas-colored, judas-coloured, red, scarlet), basilar (basic, bottom, essential, fundamental, key, main, primary, principal, root, underlying), básico (basic, bottom, chief, essential, fundamental, key, main, major, primary, principal, root, underlying). (various references) | |
Romanian | Cardinal (chief), Roza Vânturilor (wind), Roşu-aprins (Ruby, scarlet), Roşu Aprins, Principal (broad, capital, chief, first, front, grand, head, high, leading, main, notional, premier, primal, prime, principal, staple), De Cardinal, De Bazã (base, basic, indispensable, principal). (various references) | |
Russian | Основной, Кардинал, кардинал основной, "лавный, "лавнейший, 'ажнейший. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kardinal. (various references) | |
Spanish | cardenal (bruise), cardinal. (various references) | |
Swedish | Kardinal, Främst (especially, first, foremost, leading, overriding, premier, principally, uppermost). (various references) | |
Turkish | Parlak Kırmızı (vermilion), Kardinal, Başlıca (chiefly, essential, largely, leading, main, mainly, major, mostly, primarily, primary, prime, principally, ruling, staple), Asıl (actual, authentic, central, elementary, extraction, foundation, fountain-head, gist, groundwork, in chief, intrinsic, main, master, origin, original, origination, pivotal, principal, principally, provenance, real, root stock, true, virtual), Önemli, Ana (basic, broad, capital, chief, fundamental, governing, grand, guiding, head, key, leading, main, main part, major, master, matron, mother, parent, predominant, primary, principal, principle, staple). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | яскраво-червоний Колір, яскраво-червоний (Orient, ruddy, scarlet, vermilion), Основний, Кілкісний, Кардинальний, Кардинал, "оловний, "лінтвейн З червоного 'ина, Сторони Світу. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | chính (capitally, keynote, leading, main, mainly, primarily, primary, principal, principally, staple), chủ yếu (central, chief, governing, main, primal, staple), giáo chủ áo đỏ. (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | cardinalis, Gubernatrix cristata, Lobelia cardinalis L., Paroaria capitata, Paroaria coronata. (various references) |
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Words beginning with "cardinal": cardinalate, cardinalates, cardinalities, cardinality, cardinally, cardinals, cardinalship, cardinalships. (additional references) | |
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"Cardinal" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ardinisle, cadinal, Caradonna, Cardena, cardial, Cardinale, Cardinaled, Cardinan, cardine, cardines, cardnail, Cardonald, Cardonma, Carinhall, Cerdana, Cerdanya, Cladinam, codenoll, Cordwina, Kirodimal, Sardial, sardinal, sardinhas. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cardinal" (pronounced kÄ"rdunul) |
| 5 | -d u n u l | attitudinal, duodenal, latitudinal, longitudinal. |
| 4 | -u n u l | abdominal, aberrational, aboriginal, additional, Arsenal, binational, biphenyl, cantonal, coeducational, collisional, compositional, computational, concessional, conditional, confessional, conformational, confrontational, congregational, congressional, connotational, constitutional, conventional, conversational, correctional, criminal, delusional, denominational, depositional, devotional, diagonal, dimensional, directional, divisional, doctrinal, dysfunctional, educational, emotional, erosional, exceptional, factional, fictional, fluxional, foundational, fractional, functional, gastrointestinal, generational, gravitational, hexagonal, impersonal, improvisational, subliminal, superregional, supranational, terminal, informational, inspirational, institutional, instructional, intentional, intergenerational, international, interpersonal, intestinal, investigational, Invitational, irrational, jurisdictional, juvenile, luminal, marginal, medicinal, motivational, multinational, national, navigational, nominal, noncriminal, nonprofessional, nontraditional, nutritional, obsessional, occasional, occupational, octagonal, operational, optional, organizational, original, personal, phenomenal, polygonal, processional, professional, promotional, proportional, provisional, rational, recreational, regional, relational, representational, retinal, rotational, seasonal, sectional, seminal, sensational, sentinel, situational, traditional, transformational, transitional, transnational, unconditional, unconstitutional, unconventional, unemotional, unintentional, unprofessional, untraditional, virginal, vocational. |
| 3 | -n u l | infernal, adrenal, anal, annal, annul, atonal, autumnal, carnal, channel, Colonel, communal, cornel, Darnel, departmental, diurnal, empanel, eternal, external, faunal, fennel, final, flannel, fraternal, funnel, hormonal, Hymnal, impanel, spinal, internal, journal, kennel, kernel, maternal, monoclonal, monsoonal, morainal, nocturnal, panel, paternal, penal, polyvinyl, renal, semifinal, shrapnel, signal, tonal, tribunal, tunnel, vaginal, venal, vernal, Vinal, vinyl. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: carinal, cranial, laniard, nadiral, radical. | |
-2 letters: acarid, acinar, aldrin, arnica, canard, cardia, carina, carlin, carnal, crania, narial, racial, radial, radian, rancid. | |
-3 letters: acari, acrid, aland, alcid, caird, cairn, canal, canid, craal, daric, dinar, drail, drain, laari, laird, lanai, liana, liard, lidar, linac, nadir, naiad, naira, naric, nicad, nidal, ranid. | |
-4 letters: acid, airn, alan, alar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: cardinals. | |
+2 letters: aldermanic, cardinally, placarding. | |
+3 letters: antiradical, calendaring, calendrical, cardinalate, cardinality, chancroidal, declaration, endocardial, radicalness, recanalized, redactional. | |
+4 letters: appendicular, cardinalates, cardinalship, clairaudient, clapboarding, declarations, ineradicable, ineradicably, intercalated, intracardial, radicalising, radicalizing, sardonically, uncalibrated. | |
+5 letters: aerodynamical, archidiaconal, blackguarding, cardinalities, cardinalships, clairaudience, desacralizing, radicalnesses, relandscaping, ultradistance, unarticulated, valedictorian. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Sounds | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Historic 11. Quotations: Fiction 12. Quotations: Non-fiction | 13. Quotations: Speeches 14. Usage Frequency 15. Names: Frequency 16. Names: Company Usage | 17. Expressions 18. Expressions: Internet 19. Translations: Modern 20. Translations: Ancient | 21. Derivations 22. Rhymes 23. Anagrams 24. Bibliography |
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