Centralia

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of centrale form-of, plural
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Clinton County, Jefferson County, Marion County and Washington County, Illinois, named after the Illinois Central Railroad.
  2. 2
    A geographic region in central Australia.
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Marion County, Illinois.
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Dubuque County, Iowa.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Nemaha County, Kansas.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A city and township in Boone County, Missouri.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A hamlet in the town of Stockton, Chautauqua County, New York.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Craig County, Oklahoma.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A borough and near-ghost town (due to an underground coal-mine fire) in Columbia County, Pennsylvania.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Trinity County, Texas.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Chesterfield County, Virginia.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Lewis County, Washington.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Braxton County, West Virginia, the geographic centre of the state.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A former city, merged in 1900 with Grand Rapids, later renamed Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.
  10. 15
    A community in South Huron municipality, Huron County, Ontario, Canada.

Synonyms

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central australiared centre

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"It is the 4th of September of 2013. For Centralia, my main recommendation is Esperanto. I believe that it could strengthen people there. It has something to do with mouth movements, respiration, etc. Also, its simplicity is better. It is more Daoistic. Lojban in Centralia would be for top students only because it is like learning weird mathematics. Lojban words are like Japanese Kanji because they have different sounds when they combine. The root words have shorter forms in combinations."

Etymology

From central + -ia; diminutive of Central Australia.

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