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Adjective
/ˈkärd-nl/,/ˈkärdn-əl/,
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cardinals, plural;
  1. Of the greatest importance; fundamental
    • - two cardinal points must be borne in mind
Noun
  1. A leading dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church. Cardinals are nominated by the pope and form the Sacred College, which elects succeeding popes (now invariably from among their own number)

  2. A deep scarlet color like that of a cardinal's cassock

  3. A New World songbird of the bunting family, with a stout bill and typically with a conspicuous crest. The male is partly or mostly red in color

  1. (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. 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"
  3. cardinal number: the number of elements in a mathematical set; denotes a quantity but not the order
  4. being or denoting a numerical quantity but not order; "cardinal numbers"
  5. a variable color averaging a vivid red
  6. crested thick-billed North American finch having bright red plumage in the male
  7. Cardinal is the sole album from the Eric Matthews and Richard Davies collaboration Cardinal.
  8. Cardinal is a brewery founded in 1788 by François Piller, located in Fribourg, Switzerland.
  9. The Cardinals or Cardinalidae are a family of passerine birds found in North and South America. The South American cardinals in the genus Paroaria are placed in another family, the Thraupidae (previously placed in Emberizidae).
  10. A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. ...
  11. The Minor Canons of St Paul's Cathedral, London, whose origins predate the Norman conquest of England, unusually were independent of the senior canons and, as priests, of higher status than the lay vicars choral. Medieval Hereford furnishes the only other example of such a structure. ...
  12. Cardinal is a vivid red, which gets its name from the cassocks worn by Catholic cardinals (although the color worn by cardinals is actually scarlet). The family of birds takes its name from the color.
  13. A songbird of the finch family, Cardinalis cardinalis; A shade of scarlet associated with the colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock; Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal; Of or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west); Describing a "natural" number used to ...
  14. (cardinally) In a cardinal manner
  15. (Cardinals) Aaron Miles Fastball
  16. (Cardinals) Home, Road - This one is old school. The pants stripping is super old. The helmet is really old. The Arizona flag is kinda old. Combine all the elements with super thin stripes and you have a really modern yet classic uniform.
  17. 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. ...
  18. Referring to the four main points of the compass: north, south, east and west. See also "bearing".
  19. Number words like one, two, four, twenty, fifty, hundred, million. Contrast ordinal.
  20. High ecclesiastic appointed by the pope to the College of Cardinals and ranking above every other ecclesiastic but the pope. [9]
  21. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, 22 June, 1535.
  22. Highest-ranking Catholic clergy below the pope. By church law cardinals are regarded as the pope's closest advisors, and when a pope dies those who are not yet 80 years old meet in a conclave in Rome to elect a new pope. ...
  23. the clergy of Rome who became the immediate advisors of the pope (Latin cardo = hinge)
  24. The first sign of each season is in the cardinal mode. Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. Because they're naturals at being first, people born under cardinal signs are born leaders, starters and goal setters.
  25. A small group of Bishops who elect a Pope and act as his advisors.