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# cardigan

«cardigan» in Mova's school dictionary: **a knitted jumper (sweater) that opens down the front and…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a cardigan, cardigans)

### meaning for a pupil

A cardigan is a knitted jumper (sweater) that opens down the front and does up with buttons or a zip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it is a warm piece of clothing, often worn by grandparents or as school uniform. Phrases: «put on your cardigan», «a school cardigan», «button up your cardigan».

### examples

- Put on your cardigan; it's chilly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#x1)
- My school cardigan is navy blue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#x2)
- Gran knitted me a red cardigan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#x3)
- A cardigan costs 18 pounds; how much do 3 cost? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#x4)
- He buttoned up his cardigan. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#x5)
- I left my cardigan on the bus. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/#x6)

### note

Countable. Informal UK short form: «cardi». Different from a jumper/sweater, which has no opening down the front. Named after a British earl, the Earl of Cardigan.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «cardigan» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/cardigan/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.