1. cardinal - Noun
2. cardinal - Adjective
3. cardinal - Adjective Satellite
4. Cardinal - Proper noun
Of fundamental importance; preeminent; superior; chief; principal.
One of the ecclesiastical princes who constitute the pope's council, or the sacred college.
A woman's short cloak with a hood.
Mulled red wine.
Source: Webster's dictionaryForce and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues. Thomas Hobbes
Every transfinite consistent multiplicity, that is, every transfinite set, must have a definite aleph as its cardinal number. Georg Cantor
Credit means that a certain confidence is given, and a certain trust reposed. Is that trust justified? and is that confidence wise? These are the cardinal questions. To put it more simply credit is a set of promises to pay; will those promises be kept? Walter Bagehot
He who has the Pope for a cousin soon becomes a Cardinal. Italian Proverb
In a conclave many go in as a pope but come back out as the cardinal they were when they went in. French Proverb
He who has the Pope for his cousin may soon be a Cardinal. German Proverb