Definition of CENTRAL

central

Plural: centrals

Noun

  • A main telephone exchange or a central office.
  • a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
  • center

Adjective Satellite

  • serving as an essential component
    • "the central cause of the problem"

Adjective

  • Situated at, in, or forming the center; crucially important.
  • in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area
    • "a central position"

Adj

  • Being in the centre.
  • Having or containing the centre of something.
  • Being very important, or key to something.
  • Exerting its action towards the peripheral organs.
  • Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
  • Of an element of an algebraic structure: which commutes with all other elements under multiplication
  • Belong or relating to the center of an algebraic structure.
  • Of a unital algebra over a field: whose center is exactly equal to the image of the base field

Examples

  • He aimed to connect his letters to the CENTRAL hub of bonus squares on the Scrabble board.
  • Placing a CENTRAL word on the board can open up many strategic possibilities in Words With Friends.

Origin / Etymology

Borrowed from Latin centrālis, from centrum (“centre”), from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron); by surface analysis, centre + -al.

Synonyms

cardinal, exchange, fundamental, key, primal, telephone exchange, dominant, main, principal

Antonyms

peripheral

Scrabble Score: 9

central: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
central: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
central: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

central: valid Words With Friends Word