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# central

«central» in Mova's school dictionary: **in the middle or centre of something: central London, the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (central, more central, most central)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Central means in the middle or centre of something: central London, the central square. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#m1)

2) Central means most important, main: the central idea of a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#m2)

3) Central means controlled from one main place: central heating, a central computer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In reading lessons, «the central idea» or «central character» is the most important one. In maths, a central point is in the middle. In geography, Central America, Central Asia, central Australia. In everyday life, central heating warms the whole house from a boiler. Phrases: «central idea», «central heating», «Central America», «central character», «city centre» (UK) / «downtown» (US).

### examples

- Our hotel was in central Paris. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x1)
- The central idea of the story is friendship. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x2)
- We put the plant on the central table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x3)
- The house has central heating. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x4)
- Mexico is north of Central America. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x5)
- The library is central to our school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x6)
- The heart has a central role in the body. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x7)
- Central Australia is very hot and dry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x8)
- This led into a central chamber 15 feet square and open to the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/#x9)

### note

From «centre» (UK) / «center» (US); «central» is the same everywhere. Adverb: centrally. Do not confuse with «centennial» (100 years).

### In the corpora

- [Mandrills, the monkeys with red and blue faces, live in the rainforests of central Africa, not on the open savanna.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/4-the-savanna/18/)
- [Mandrills live in the rainforests of Central Africa and have short stumpy tails; they are the biggest monkeys in the world.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/126-the-lion-king-hyenas-rafiki-and-zazu/10/)
- ["Quantitative easing" means the central bank (the country's own bank, in charge of its money) creating new money.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/21-work-firing-and-the-economy/20/)
- [After 1500 the Mediterranean slowly became less central to world trade as Atlantic and ocean routes grew.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/32-venice-the-ottomans-and-the-mediterranean/17/)
- [Central Park in New York was planned from 1858 to give crowded city people green space; it did not just happen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/73-cities-why-they-grow-and-how-sewers-made-them-safe/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «central» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/central/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.