Borrowed fromLatin centrālis centrum ( “ centre ” ) , fromAncient Greek κέντρον ( kéntron ) ; bysurface analysis ,centre -al
central (comparative morecentral ,superlative mostcentral or centralmost or ( UK ) centremost or ( US ) centermost
Being in thecentre .1814 William Wordsworth , “The Parsonage”, inThe Poetical Works of William Wordsworth , volume V, London: Longman, published1827 ,page340 :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.
2013 July 27, “Putting down roots ”, inThe Economist 408 , number8846 :The plantoid[ …] central stem containing a reservoir of liquid plastic of a sort that can be frozen by ultraviolet light. Half a dozen cylindrical roots will branch off this stem, and the plastic will flow through these from the reservoir to the tip. As in a real root, the tip will be a specialised structure.
2024 May 4, John Naughton, “The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding”, inThe Guardian [1] The network had nocentral ownership or controller; and it did only one thing – transfer data packets from one edge of the network to their destination at another edge.
Having or containing the centre of something. Being very important, or key to something.Synonyms: dominant main principal 2012 September 7, Phil McNulty, “Moldova 0-5 England ”, inBBC Sport :Cleverley was acentral 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.
2020 May 6, Jim Steer, “Full Business Case offers fresh insight into HS2's prospects”, inRail , page 51, photo caption:Passengers crowd in the main concourse at LondonEuston on January 28 2017, before boarding West Coast Main Line services. The urgent need to relieve congestion and improve reliability on theWCML remainscentral in the recently published Full Business Case for HS2. ( anatomy ) ( algebra ) center of analgebraic structure .Of anelement of an algebraic structure: whichcommutes with all other elements under multiplication Of aunital algebra over afield : whosecenter is exactly equal to the image of the base field being in the centre
Albanian:qendror (sq) Arabic:مَرْكَزِيّ ( markaziyy ) Moroccan Arabic:وسْطاني ( wəsṭæni ) Armenian:կենտրոնական (hy) ( kentronakan ) Azerbaijani:mərkəzi Belarusian:цэнтра́льны ( centrálʹny ) Bengali:কেন্দ্রীয় (bn) ( kendriẏo ) Bulgarian:центра́лен (bg) ( centrálen ) Burmese:ဗဟို (my) ( ba.hui ) Catalan:central (ca) Chinese:Mandarin:中央 (zh) ( zhōngyāng ) Czech:ústřední (cs) ,centrální (cs) Danish:central (da) Dutch:centraal (nl) Estonian:tsentraalne keskne Finnish:keski- (fi) ,keskus - French:central (fr) Friulian:centrâl Galician:central (gl) Georgian:ცენტრალური ( cenṭraluri ) German:zentral (de) ,mittig (de) Bavarian:zenträu Greek:κεντρικός (el) ( kentrikós ) Hebrew:מֶרְכָּזִי (he) m ( merkazí ) Hindi:केंद्रीय (hi) ( kendrīya ) Hungarian:központi (hu) Indonesian:sentral (id) Ingrian:tsentraljnoi Italian:centrale (it) Japanese:中央の (ja) ( ちゅうおうの, chūō no ) ,中心の (ja) ( ちゅうしんの, chūshin no ) Kazakh:орталық ( ortalyq ) Khmer:កណ្ដាល (km) ( kɑndaal ) Korean:중앙(中央) (ko) ( jung'ang ) ( noun used attributively ) ,중심(中心) (ko) ( jungsim ) ,가운데 (ko) ( gaunde ) Kurdish:Central Kurdish:ناوەندی (ckb) ( nawendî ) Kyrgyz:борбордук (ky) ( borborduk ) Lao:ກາງ (lo) ( kāng ) Latin:medius (la) Latvian:centrāls Lithuanian:centrinis (lt) Lombard:central (lmo) Macedonian:средишен ( središen ) ,централен ( centralen ) Malay:pusat sentral Marathi:केंद्रीय ( kendrīy ) Mongolian:Cyrillic:төв (mn) ( töv ) ,төвийн (mn) ( töviin ) Norwegian:Bokmål:sentral (no) Old English:middel Pashto:منځنی ( manźanay ) ,مرکزي ( markazí ) Persian:مرکزی (fa) ( markazi ) Piedmontese:central Polish:centralny (pl) ,środkowy (pl) Portuguese:central (pt) Romanian:central (ro) Russian:центра́льный (ru) ( centrálʹnyj ) Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:срѐдишњӣ централан Latin:srèdišnjī (sh) ,centralan Slovak:ústredný (sk) ,centrálny Slovene:središčen centralen Spanish:central (es) Swahili:katikati (sw) Swedish:central (sv) Tajik:марказӣ (tg) ( markazi ) Thai:ศูนย์กลาง (th) ( sǔun-glaang ) ,กลาง (th) ( glaang ) Turkish:merkezi (tr) ,orta (tr) Turkmen:merkezi Ukrainian:центра́льний (uk) ( centrálʹnyj ) Urdu:مرکزی ( markazī ) Uyghur:مەركىزىي ( merkiziy ) Uzbek:markaziy (uz) Vietnamese:trung ương (vi) Walloon:mîtrin (wa) ,cintrå (wa) Welsh:canolog (cy) Yiddish:צענטראַל ( tsentral )
having or containing the centre of something
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central (plural centrals
( especially US ) center Borrowed fromLatin centrālis
central m or f masculine and feminine plural centrals
central ( being in the centre ) central f plural centrals
nexus ;headquarters ( non-military ) ; central officeSynonym: seu ( “ seat or headquarters ” ) Antonym: sucursal ( “ branch office ” ) Hyponyms: central telefònica central telegràfica ( electricity ) power plant Hyponyms: central elèctrica central eòlica central fotovoltaica central geotèrmica central heliotèrmica ,central heliotermodinàmica central hidràulica ,central hidroelèctrica central hidrotèrmica central mareomotriu central nuclear central solar central tèrmica ,central termoelèctrica “central ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana Dictionary of the Catalan Language Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “central ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2026 “central” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“central” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.Borrowed fromLatin centralis
central c singular definite centralen plural indefinite centraler
headquarters , place whenceorganizations areadministrated central
central , being in the centreInflection ofcentral positive comparative superlative indefinite common singular central — —2 indefinite neuter singular centralt — —2 plural centrale — —2 definite attributive1 centrale — —
1 When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite,2 The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively.
Borrowed fromLatin centrālis surface analysis ,centre -al
central (feminine centrale masculine plural centraux feminine plural centrales
central Antonym: périphérique Learned borrowing fromLatin centrālis
central m or f plural centrais
central Borrowed fromLatin centrālis
central m feminine singular centrala masculine plural centrals feminine plural centralas
central Borrowed fromLatin centrālis surface analysis ,centro -al
Rhymes:( Portugal ) -al ( Brazil ) -aw Hyphenation:cen‧tral central m or f plural centrais
central central f plural centrais
centre headquarters central m or f by sense plural centrais
( Portugal , soccer ) back ( player in a position behind most players on the team ) “central ”, inDicionário Aulete Digital 2026 “central ”, inDicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2026 “central ” inDicionário Aberto based onNovo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo , 1913 “central ”, inDicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa 2026 “central ”, inMichaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa 2026 ,→ISBN “central ”, inDicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa 2026 Borrowed fromFrench central Latin centrālis surface analysis ,centru -al
central m or n feminine singular centrală masculine plural centrali feminine/neuter plural centrale
central ,pivotal ,nodal Borrowed fromLatin centrālis
central m or f masculine and feminine plural centrales
central central f plural centrales
headquarter center power station Synonym: centra eléctrica central m or( Cuba ) f plural centrales
( Nicaragua , Panama , Dominican Republic , Cuba ) sugar mill Borrowed fromLatin centrālis centrum ( “ center point ” ) +-ālis
central
central ,centralized , situated at the centre (of a town)central,important 1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.2 Dated or archaic.3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
Clipping ofcentralstation
central c
acentral centre , a central station, a junction, a connection point, an electricalswitchboard 
