CARDIFF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cardiff mean? 

• CARDIFF (noun)
  The noun CARDIFF has 1 sense:

1. the capital and largest city of Wales

  Familiarity information: CARDIFF used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARDIFF (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capital and largest city of Wales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Cardiff" is a part of...):

Cambria; Cymru; Wales (one of the four countries that make up the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland; during Roman times the region was known as Cambria)

 Context examples 

A team led by scientists from Cardiff University has predicted that fields of sharp ice growing to almost 15 metres tall could be scattered across the equatorial regions of Jupiter's moon, Europa.

(Icy Warning for Space Missions to Jupiter's Moon, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Study researcher Jane Greaves, from the University of Cardiff, and colleagues, found that the reason our planet got enough of the element is because it is close enough to a supernova.

(Finding Alien Life Unlikely Due to Lack of Phosphorus in Universe, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)