Cardigan

See also: cardigan and cárdigan

English

Etymology

Anglicized from Welsh Ceredigion (“Ceredig's Island”)

Proper noun

Cardigan

1. A town and community with a town council in Ceredigion, Wales (OS grid ref SN1846).
2. (historical) The County of Cardigan, a former synonym of Cardiganshire, Wales.
   • 1952 July, J. F. Burrell, “The Cardigan Branch”, in Railway Magazine, page 485:

     After running through the meadows for about a mile, the train enters the County of Cardigan, and follows the south bank of the Teifi to Cardigan Station.

3. A community in the town of Three Rivers, Kings County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
4. A western suburb of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
5. A surname.

Derived terms

• cardigan (eponym)
• Cardigan Bay (large body of water in Wales)
• Cardiganshire (present-day Ceredigion)

Translations

town in Wales

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 卡迪根 (Kǎdígēn)

• French:

  Old French: Caradigan

• Welsh: Aberteifi (cy)

Anagrams

• Draganić, arcading, carangid

German

Etymology

English cardigan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʁd̪iɡan/

• Audio:

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Noun

Cardigan m (strong, genitive Cardigans, plural Cardigans)

1. cardigan

   Synonyms: Strickjacke, Strickweste

   Coordinate terms: Pullover, Pullunder

Declension

Declension of Cardigan [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Cardigan	die	Cardigans
genitive	eines	des	Cardigans	der	Cardigans
dative	einem	dem	Cardigan	den	Cardigans
accusative	einen	den	Cardigan	die	Cardigans

Further reading

• “Cardigan” in Duden online
• “Cardigan” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache