Synonyms for center
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- American English
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Heart
heart, core, nucleus, heart and soul, meat, kernel, substance, nub, essence, pith, nitty-gritty informal, sum, gist, marrow, inwardness
2. Plaza
plaza, mall, shopping mall US, shopping center US
4. Nerve centre
nerve centre UK CA, nerve center US
Other
mid-point, area control center, centroid, eye, centerfield, snapper
Verb
1. Focus
Other
Adjective
Definitions
- n. 1
The point in the interior of a circle that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- n. 2
The point in the interior of a sphere that is equidistant from all points on the circumference.
- v. 1
To cause (an object) to occupy the center of an area.
He centered the heading of the document.
- adj. 1
Of, at, or related to a center.
Related words
- Word family
- centercab centerfield centerfire centerfold central
- Phrases
- city center shopping center galactic center center field center of gravity cooling center fitness center medical center
- Other spellings
- centre UK cinter US
Choose the right word
We speak of the center of a circle, the middle of a room, the middle of the street, the midst of a forest. The center is equally distant from every point of the circumference of a circle, or from the opposite boundaries on each axis of a parallelogram, etc.; the middle is more general and less definite.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- core It's quite likely that FIFA is rotten to the core.
- nucleus A great deal of energy is locked up in the nucleus.
- mall Would you like to go to the shopping mall with me?
- plaza The rioters were forcibly removed from the plaza.
By length
- 3 letters
- eye1, sum1, nub1
- 4 letters
- core1, meat1, mall1, pore1, gist1, pith1
- 5 letters
- heart1, focus2, plaza2, midst1, rivet2
- 6 letters
- middle2, midway2, kernel2, marrow2
- 7 letters
- central2, essence2, nucleus3, snapper2
- 8 letters
- centrist2, centroid
- 9 letters
- substance2
- 10 letters
- inwardness
- 11 letters
- concentrate3, centerfield
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (focus2 = 2 syllables).