Refine this word faster

Stronger alternatives Opposite tone Use in context Cross-language nuance

Central

//ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being in the centre.

    "Egyption Thebes; / Tyre by the margin of the sounding waves; / Palmyra, central in the Desert, fell; / And the Arts died by which they had been raised."

  2. 2
    Having or containing the centre of something.
  3. 3
    Being very important, or key to something.

    "Cleverley was a central figure as England took the lead inside three minutes. He saw his shot handled by Moldovan defender Simion Bulgaru and Lampard drilled home the penalty in trademark fashion."

  4. 4
    Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
  5. 5
    Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.; Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
Show 1 more definition
  1. 6
    Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.; Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field
Adjective
  1. 1
    in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area wordnet
  2. 2
    serving as an essential component wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
  2. 2
    An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

    "The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central."

  3. 3
    The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
  4. 4
    A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
Noun
  1. 1
    center US, especially
  2. 2
    a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.

See also for "central"

Synonyms Antonyms Rhymes Sentences Translate Word Type Pronunciation Word Forms

Next best steps

Find stronger synonymsSee usage examplesCheck pronunciation

Mini challenge

Unscramble this word: central