Cardiff
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Definitions
- 1 A city and county, the capital and largest city of Wales.
"The riots began after misinformation circulated widely online about the identity and motives of the suspect in the Southport murders, who was named on Thursday as 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana. The media had been unable to name the teenager, who was born in Cardiff to Rwandan parents, because he is under 18."
- 2 The Welsh government. metonymically
- 3 A suburb of Newcastle in the City of Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia.
- 4 A community in the township of Highlands East, Haliburton County, Ontario, Canada.
- 5 A hamlet in Sturgeon County, in central Alberta, Canada.
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- 6 A small rural settlement in the region of Taranaki, New Zealand.
- 7 A place in the United States:; A tiny town in Jefferson County, Alabama.
- 8 A place in the United States:; Synonym of Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
- 9 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Livingston County, Illinois.
- 10 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland.
- 11 A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Egg Harbor Township, Atlantic County, New Jersey.
- 12 A place in the United States:; A small hamlet in Onondaga County, New York.
- 13 A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Roane County, Tennessee.
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More examples"The researchers Chris Berry of Cardiff University, Wales, and John Marshall of England’s Southampton University have dated this ancient forest and found it to be about 380 million years old."
Etymology
From Middle Welsh Caerdyf, equivalent to Welsh caer (“fort”) + Taf (“(River) Taff”) = fortified city on the River Taff. Compare Welsh Caerdydd.
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