English Explanatory Dictionary

central

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Being in the centre.
  2. Having or containing the centre of something.
  3. Being very important, or key to something.
  4. Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
  5. Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
  6. Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
  7. Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field
noun
  1. center
name
  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. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
  3. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
  4. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
  5. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.
adj
  1. Of or pertaining to the Central Powers.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɛntɹ(ə)l/ [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɛ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩] /ˈsɪntɹ(ə)l/ [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊əl] ~ [ˈsɪ̟ntɹ̝̊l̩] En-us-central.ogg

Word forms

central more central most central centralmost centremost centermost centrals

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱent-der. Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron)der. Latin centrum Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālis Latin centrālisbor. English central Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.

Synonyms

dominant main principal

Related words

center Central Region

Derived words

acentral anterocentral Australian Central Daylight Time Australian Central Standard Time Ballarat Central bicentral Bundaberg Central Canberra Central caudocentral central adiposity Central African Federation Central Africa Time Central American bushmaster Central Anatolia central angle central bank Central Bedfordshire Central Bohemian Region Central Bridge central business district central canal central casting central chimpanzee central city Central Coast Central Coaster Central Colo central committee central cord syndrome central core disease Central Daylight Time Central Desert central determiner central dogma central door locking Central Elgin Central European Central European Midsummer Time Central Europe Time central excise Central Falls central fire Central Frontenac Central Goldfields central government central heating Central Highlands Central Huron Centralia centralisation centralise centralish centrality centralize Central Kootenay central limit theorem central location test central locking centrally Central Macdonald
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