COLLEGE OF CARDINALS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does College of Cardinals mean? 

• COLLEGE OF CARDINALS (noun)
  The noun COLLEGE OF CARDINALS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: COLLEGE OF CARDINALS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COLLEGE OF CARDINALS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

cardinalate; College of Cardinals; Sacred College; Sacred College of Cardinals

Hypernyms ("College of Cardinals" is a kind of...):

body (a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity)

Meronyms (members of "College of Cardinals"):

cardinal ((Roman Catholic Church) one of a group of more than 100 prominent bishops in the Sacred College who advise the Pope and elect new Popes)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

Holonyms ("College of Cardinals" is a part of...):

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)

 Context examples 

“Bless the lad, if he doth not blush like any girl, and yet preach like the whole College of Cardinals,” cried the archer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Not the Pope himself shall have these from me, though he sent the whole college of cardinals to ask it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)