CENTRAL as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
   Synonym(s)
   • exchange (what does exchange mean?)
   • telephone exchange (what does telephone exchange mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) central is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • workplace (what does workplace mean?)
   • work (what does work mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • centrex (what does centrex mean?)
   • switchboard (what does switchboard mean?)
   • patchboard (what does patchboard mean?)
   • plugboard (what does plugboard mean?)

CENTRAL as ADJECTIVE

1. Meaning
   • in or near a center or constituting a center
   • the inner area
   Usage Example(s)
   • a central position
   • central heating and air conditioning
   Antonym(s)
   • peripheral (what does peripheral mean?)
   Similar To
   • amidship (what does amidship mean?)
   • bicentric (what does bicentric mean?)
   • center(a) (what does center(a) mean?)
   • halfway (what does halfway mean?)
   • middle(a) (what does middle(a) mean?)
   • midway (what does midway mean?)
   • centric (what does centric mean?)
   • centrical (what does centrical mean?)
   • focal (what does focal mean?)
   • median (what does median mean?)
   • medial (what does medial mean?)
   • middlemost (what does middlemost mean?)
   • midmost (what does midmost mean?)
   • nuclear (what does nuclear mean?)
   • bifocal (what does bifocal mean?)
   • centered (what does centered mean?)
2. Meaning
   • centrally located and easy to reach
   Usage Example(s)
   • the central city has good bus service
   • the shop has a central location
   Similar To
   • inner(a) (what does inner(a) mean?)
3. Meaning
   • serving as an essential component
   Synonym(s)
   • cardinal (what does cardinal mean?)
   • fundamental (what does fundamental mean?)
   • key (what does key mean?)
   • primal (what does primal mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a cardinal rule
   • the central cause of the problem
   • an example that was fundamental to the argument
   • computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure
   Similar To
   • important (what does important mean?)
   • of import (what does of import mean?)
4. Meaning
   • used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place
   Usage Example(s)
   • the people of Central and Northern Europe
   • country in central Africa
   Pertainym(s)
   • center (what does center mean?)
   • centre (what does centre mean?)
   • midpoint (what does midpoint mean?)