central

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   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
   adj

   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.

3. 3
   name

   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.

4. 4
   adj

   Of or pertaining to the Central Powers.

   On this score, then, it is quite clear that up to now neither the Entente nor the Central armies have been outmanœuvred, or indeed have invented a weapon of offence that has produced decisive results.

5. 5
   adj

   in or near a center or constituting a center

6. 6
   adj

   serving as an essential component

7. 7
   noun

   a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication

8. 8
   adj

   Having or containing the centre of something.

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.