Cardinal (noun)
kah-din-al
RC Church any of the members of the Sacred College, ranking next after the pope, who elect the pope and act as his chief counsellors
A deep scarlet red.
a woman’s hooded shoulder cape worn in the 17th and 18th centuries in the colour now known as cardinal red.</strong)
First recorded around 1525. From the Latin novātiō, meaning “a renewing;” related to the words new and novel.
Example sentences
“He was a high cardinal of the church, and we expected better of him.”
