Cardiff
[kahr-dif]
- a seaport in South Glamorgan, in SE Wales.
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Contemporary Examples
The royal couple then traveled on to the Welsh capital of Cardiff to watch a rugby match between Wales and Australia.
“These measures of penetrance are likely artificially high,” says University of Cardiff medical geneticist David Cooper.
In July 2013, 17 schoolboys in Cardiff, Wales showed up to school in skirts after temperatures in the U.K. became obscenely high.
“It is never going to come to court,” Frank Cranmer a researcher on law and religion at the Cardiff Law School, told me.
How could Cardiff lose, they asked, when she was piggybacking on the tonal pleasures of established classical music?
Historical Examples
I walked forty miles to Cardiff Fair and didn't dance like this.
The House Under the SeaSir Max Pemberton
The Cardiff Giant, which Horace said "you might depend upon was a hoax."
Prudy Keeping HouseSophie May
Cardiff Castle was much more than a place of defence; it was the seat of government.
Medival WalesA. G. Little
Of the two last we have splendid examples in Cardiff and Caerphilly.
Medival WalesA. G. Little
Cardiff and Swansea are ports connected with the coal and iron trade.
Commercial GeographyJacques W. Redway
Cardiff
- the capital of Wales, situated in the southeast, in Cardiff county borough: formerly an important port; seat of the Welsh assembly (1999); university (1883). Pop: 292 150 (2001)
- a county borough in SE Wales, created in 1996 from part of South Glamorgan. Pop: 315 100 (2003 est). Area: 139 sq km (54 sq miles)
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Welsh name: Caerdydd
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