cardinalate

1. 1.

   (Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope

   SynonymsSacred CollegeCollege of CardinalsSacred College of Cardinals

   Broaderbody

   Part ofRoman Catholic

   Roman Catholic

2. 2.

   the office of cardinal

   “following the scandal, the cardinal resigned his cardinalate”

   Synonymscardinalship

   Broaderposition

Other forms of cardinalate

plural

cardinalates·

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 cardinalate

What does cardinalate mean?

cardinalate means "(Roman Catholic Church) the body of all cardinals of the church; elects and advises the pope". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cardinalate?

cardinalate has 4 syllables: car-di-na-late. The stress falls on "di".

What is another word for cardinalate?

Close synonyms include Sacred College, College of Cardinals, Sacred College of Cardinals, cardinalship. 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 cardinalate a common word?

cardinalate is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.