cardigan

1. 1.

   knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper

   Broadersweater

   Partsslide fastener
2. 2.

   slightly bowlegged variety of corgi having rounded ears and a long tail

   SynonymsCardigan Welsh corgi

   Broadercorgi

Other forms of cardigan

plural

cardigans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about cardigan

What does cardigan mean?

cardigan means "knitted jacket that is fastened up the front with buttons or a zipper". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cardigan?

cardigan has 3 syllables: car-di-gan. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˈkɑɹdɪɡən/.

What is another word for cardigan?

Close synonyms include Cardigan Welsh corgi. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cardigan a common word?

cardigan is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.