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cardinal
  1. A number indicating quantity, or the size of a set, e.g., one, two, three. (See Wikipedia article on Cardinal number.)
  2. (grammar) A word used to represent a cardinal number; a cardinal numeral.
  3. An official in the Catholic Church, ranking only below the Pope and the patriarchs. (See Wikipedia article on Catholic cardinals.)
  4. Any of a genus of songbirds of the finch family, Cardinalis.
  5. Any of various related passerine birds of the family Cardinalidae (See Wikipedia article on cardinals) and other similar birds that were once considered to be related.
  6. A shade of scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock.
  7. (historical) A woman's short cloak with a hood.
  8. (obsolete) Mulled red wine.
  9. A freshwater fish, the cardinal tetra (Paracheirodon axelrodi).
  10. Synonyms:
cardinality
  1. (set theory) Of a set, the number of elements it contains.
  2. (data modeling, databases) The property of a relationship between a database table and another one, specifying whether it is one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many.
  3. (religion) The status of a cardinal
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The cardinality of the set A is 5, indicating that it contains exactly 5 elements.”
      “The max cardinality of an argument pin must be the same as for the represented Attribute.”
      “It is the combination of cardinality and elements that give us the twelve combinations evidenced in the astrological signs.”
cardinalate
  1. The dignity and ecclestiastic office of Roman Catholic cardinal.
  2. Collective term for the cardinals
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  4. Examples:
    1. “It is estimated that this cardinalate cost France about eight million francs.”
      “On the deliberate exclusion of the humanists from the cardinalate by the popes before Leo, comp.”
      “The growth of the college, however, prompted the imposition of new restrictions on the cardinalate.”
cardinalist
  1. A partisan of cardinals Richelieu and Mazarin in 17th century France (as opposed to a royalist).
cardinalship
  1. The office (or term of office) of a cardinal
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A primate cardinalship, located in Sucre, heads the church hierarchy in Bolivia.”
      “With the emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year.”
      “On the death of Sixtus in 1484, he made a friend of the successor, Innocent VIII, and through this intimacy Lorenzo acquired a cardinalship for his son Giovanni.”
cardinalships
cardinalates
cardinalists
  1. plural of cardinalist
cardinalities
cardinals
  1. plural of cardinal
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Phoenix and New Hampshire prosecutors have, at least, overcome their leeriness at even charging bishops or cardinals.”
      “But this time some 69 cardinals and 1,228 bishops and archbishops had supported the campaign for beatification.”
      “The first was by acclamation when all the cardinals agree to one name proposed without prior arrangement.”
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