Cardinalnoun詞源 1

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  ball-gamesbaseballgamesA player on the St. Louis Cardinals team.

  • Smith became a Cardinal as the result of a pre-season trade.
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  American-footballball-gamesfootballA player on the Arizona Cardinals team.

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  A student or player on a sports team at the University of Louisville.

Cardinalnoun詞源 2

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  A player on a sports team at Stanford University.

Cardinalname詞源 3

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  A surname from French common among French Canadians as well as Cree and Métis indigenous peoples in Canada.

cardinaladj/ˈkɑːd(ɪ)nəl/

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  Of fundamental importance; crucial, pivotal.

  • a cardinal rule
  • But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye.
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  nauticaltransportOf or relating to the cardinal directions (north, south, east and west).

  • a cardinal mark
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  Describing a “natural” number used to indicate quantity (e.g., zero, one, two, three), as opposed to an ordinal number indicating relative position.

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  Having a bright red color (from the color of a Catholic cardinal’s cassock).

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  astrologyhuman-sciencesmysticismBeing one of the signs Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn, associated with initiation, creation, and force.

cardinalnoun/ˈkɑːd(ɪ)nəl/

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  CatholicismChristianityRoman-CatholicismOne of the officials appointed by the pope in the Roman Catholic Church, ranking only below the pope, equal to the patriarchs, constituting the special college which elects the pope.

  • His uncle, a Cardinal, engages a Spanish youth of Moorish descent called Diego, an expert singer and player on the virginal, to unlock the secrets of the heart,[…]and cure him by the spell of his music.
  • Francis riled conservative cardinals with his compassion for migrants and refugees, openness towards LGBTQ+ Catholics and demands for action on the climate crisis. Among the frontrunners before the conclave began were Pietro Parolin, the Vatican’s secretary of state; Luis Antonio Tagle, a reformer from the Philippines; Péter Erdő, a traditionalist from Hungary; Robert Sarah, a cardinal from Guinea who criticised Francis’s papacy; and the moderate US cardinal Robert Prevost.
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  Any of various species of New-World passerine songbird in the genus Cardinalis, or in the family Cardinalidae more generally, or of similar appearance and once considered to be related to the former; so called because of their red plumage. (See Wikipedia article for taxonomical information.)

  • Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
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  A deep red color, somewhat less vivid than scarlet, the traditional colour of a Catholic cardinal's cassock. (same as cardinal red)

  • Dark navy-blue, cardinal, golden-brown, old blue, olive, slate-gray, and telegraph-blue are the favorite solid colors seen in heavy beaver cloths […]
  • The cardinal red and silver grey colors were worn with great enthusiasm. In the spring-time, when the entire student body bought their new straw hats, the bands were of cardinal and grey ribbon.
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  historicalA woman's short cloak with a hood, originally made of scarlet cloth.

  • […]; and whilst she was looking over several pieces of each, she took an opportunity of concealing under her cardinal a piece of cotton, and several handkerchiefs, with which she went off undiscovered;[…].
  • She has valuables of mine; besides, my cardinal and veil are in her room.
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  obsoleteMulled red wine.

  • He goes up, and finds the remains of the supper, Tankards full of egg-flip and cardinal, and a party playing at vingt-un.
  • A Recipe to make Cardinal, which I attribute to the German governess, raises a problem.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• cardinal number
• cardinal numeral
• cardinal flower
• cardinal tetra