Cardiff

[ kahr-dif ]

/ ˈkɑr dɪf /

noun

a seaport in South Glamorgan, in SE Wales.

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Examples from the Web for cardiff

The royal couple then traveled on to the Welsh capital of Cardiff to watch a rugby match between Wales and Australia.
Kate Middleton, the Preggers Fashion Princess|Tom Sykes|November 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“These measures of penetrance are likely artificially high,” says University of Cardiff medical geneticist David Cooper.
The Genetic Heroes That Could Cure the Sick|Carrie Arnold|July 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In July 2013, 17 schoolboys in Cardiff, Wales showed up to school in skirts after temperatures in the U.K. became obscenely high.
Skirts Should Be a Normal Choice…for Both Women and Men|Erin Cunningham|May 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“It is never going to come to court,” Frank Cranmer a researcher on law and religion at the Cardiff Law School, told me.
Britain Puts Mormonism on Trial|Naomi Zeveloff|February 8, 2014|DAILY BEAST

How could Cardiff lose, they asked, when she was piggybacking on the tonal pleasures of established classical music?
A New Masterpiece, Built on an Old One|Blake Gopnik|September 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
He died in 1134 in Cardiff Castle, after an imprisonment of twenty-six years.
The Motor Routes of England|Gordon Home
Me supposeth thou shouldst choose to return to thine own Castle of Cardiff.
The White Rose of Langley|Emily Sarah Holt
I cannot look back on my career at Cardiff with unmixed satisfaction.
Christopher Crayon's Recollections|J. Ewing Ritchie
On the next day we found three steamers to the north, one of them with much desired Cardiff coal.
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915|Various
From somewhere behind him Roger heard an exclamation coming from a member of the Cardiff crew.
The White Crystals|Howard R. Garis

British Dictionary definitions for cardiff

Cardiff

/ (ˈkɑːdɪf) /

noun

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)

Welsh name: Caerdydd

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