Cardiff

[ kahr-dif ]

noun

1. Official_name City and County of Cardiff. the capital city of Wales, located on the southeastern coast.

Cardiff

/ ˈkɑːdɪf /

noun

1. 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)
2. 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)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cardiff¹

From Welsh Cardyf “Fort of the (River) Taff,” from Middle Welsh Caerdyf

Example Sentences

The royal couple then traveled on to the Welsh capital of Cardiff to watch a rugby match between Wales and Australia.

From The Daily Beast

“These measures of penetrance are likely artificially high,” says University of Cardiff medical geneticist David Cooper.

From The 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.

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“It is never going to come to court,” Frank Cranmer a researcher on law and religion at the Cardiff Law School, told me.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic: At the Met, Janet Cardiff's sound art is much more than the great old music it riffs on.

From The Daily Beast

The Cardiff Giant, which Horace said "you might depend upon was a hoax."

From Project Gutenberg

They took nearly all its castles, including that of Cardiff.

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As a village, Llandaff is now hardly aught except a flourishing suburb of Cardiff.

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But the “Welsh Metropolis,” as Cardiff loves to call itself, will not again see those times.

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Coal is in demand everywhere, and it is pre-eminently coal that Cardiff thrives on.

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