central
124
4.7
- noun
- /ˈsɛntrəl/
- Archaic
:
central
- I can get to Grand Central and....
Examples
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The chair of the Banco Central de Reserva is a position that has a certain autonomy.
Academic text (1994) -
Everyone always says Central is the best school, so I signed my name.
Fiction book (2000) -
By the time I make it back to Grand Central, it's nearly midnight.
Fiction book (2000) -
"For the rest of your stay at Friendship Central, I will be your assistant.
Fiction book (1995) -
But what we didn't have was one central place to access all our numbers.
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We are now going to go live back to Election Central, where Chris Matthews is standing by.
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This is the the aerial view of the central ceremonial complex.
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The library serves as a central hub for students to gather and study together.
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Our city has built a new transportation central to improve access to different neighborhoods.
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The community center is a central location for meetings and activities throughout the year.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A place where people go for a service or activity
75
3.7
A busy central place where people or services come together
14
6.0
A building where telephone lines connect to allow calls
7
3.5
Main office where leaders of a company or organization work and make decisions
1
3.7
A place with machines that connects telephone calls for many people
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
Looks exactly like the kind of person chosen to play a role in a film or show
Compounds
108
1.0
A large public park in Manhattan that has wide green spaces and places for concerts
100
3.1
A national bank that controls a country's money and interest rates and holds money for the government and other banks
22
2.8
A United States government organization that collects secret information about other countries
19
2.1
A region of countries between Mexico and South America, including Guatemala and Panama
- US
11
3.2
Time used in the central United States and some parts of Canada and Mexico, one hour behind Eastern Time
9
3.4
The central bank that decides interest rates and manages money for countries using the euro
8
6.5
An official who led United States intelligence agencies and the Central Intelligence Agency from 1946 to 2005
5
2.5
A system that warms a building by making hot water or air in one place and sending it to rooms
2
3.5
Time zone used in central United States that is six hours behind Greenwich Mean Time
- Specialized
1
4.2
Main chip in a computer that does most of the work and controls other parts
1
3.7
A landlocked country in central Africa that became independent from France in 1960
- Specialized
1
3.7
The main chip in a computer that does most calculations and controls other parts
The money used in the Central African Republic is the same as the CFA franc used by several countries
A fern with narrow, strap-like leaves that grows from Florida to Argentina
- Specialized
An artery that enters the eye beside the optic nerve and brings blood to the retina
- Specialized
Small area in a cell near the nucleus that holds centrioles and arranges tiny tubes
- Specialized
A type of chimpanzee with a black face that lives in the forests of central Africa
- Indian
A Dravidian language spoken in central India, for example Gondi
- Specialized
A raised area on each side of the brain's central groove that controls movement or feeling
The part of the British government that plans, organizes, and pays for intelligence and security agencies
- Specialized
A blind spot in the center of vision that makes it hard to see faces or read
- Specialized
A deep groove on the brain surface that separates the front and top parts
- Specialized
A small blood vessel at the center of a liver lobule that collects blood and sends it to larger veins
- Specialized
A vein that takes blood away from the back of the eye through the optic nerve
- Specialized
Main vein that drains blood from the small gland above each kidney into nearby large veins
- Specialized
A way a flower ovary holds the parts that make seeds on a central column without inner walls
- Specialized
A Dravidian language that people speak in south-central India
How Important
407
3.0
- Archaic
124
4.7
- US
∞
1.0
∞
2.0
431
1.3
110
6.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Central comes from the old Greek word kentron, which means 'center', and shares the same root as the English word center, so a telephone central is simply the building at the 'center' or hub of the network.