Adjective central has 4 senses
- cardinal, central, fundamental, key, primal - serving as an essential component; "a cardinal rule"; "the central cause of the problem"; "an example that was fundamental to the argument"; "computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"
Antonym: unimportant (indirect, via important)
- central - in or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area; "a central position"; "central heating and air conditioning"
Antonyms: peripheral, circumferential, fringy, marginal, encircling, skirting, off-base
- central - used in the description of a place that in the middle of another place; "the people of Central and Northern Europe"; "country in central Africa"
- central - centrally located and easy to reach; "the central city has good bus service"; "the shop has a central location"
Antonym: outer (indirect, via inner)
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Noun central has 1 sense
- central, telephone exchange, exchange - a workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication
--1 is a kind of workplace, work
--1 is a part of telephone system, phone system
--1 has particulars: centrex; switchboard, patchboard, plugboard
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