centre
nounUK /ˈsɛntəː/ · /ˈsɛntɚ/
Etymology From Middle English center, centre, from Middle French centre, from Latin centrum, from Ancient Greek κέντρον (kéntron), from κεντεῖν (kenteîn, “to prick, goad”). Doublet of centrum.
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Australia, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
- So after a short spell in the brass foundry the wisest course was to follow with a similar period in the steel foundry, where much important work was done, including the manufacture of centres for wheels.1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 343:
- The phrase 'Imperial Manila' is used throughout the archipelago to denote the capital-heavy decision-making and the imposition of the will and culture of the political and economic centre on the peripheries.2018, Balázs Áron Kovács, Peace Infrastructures and State-Building at the Margins, Springer, →ISBN, page 280:
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- As Dodd wrote in ‘The Empty Nest,’ “To me, it was glaringly obvious that parting from a child who has been the centre of your life for twenty-odd years is a really big deal. Yet while new parents are bombarded with advice, empty nest parents are left to muddle through what is arguably the most challenging phase of parenting.”2025 August 10, Don Riddell, “Now that my kids are off to college, what’s this empty nester dad to do?”, in CNN:
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acentrous, alt-centre, barycentre, biocentre, Catapult centre, centrebit, centreboard, Centre County, centredness, centrefield, centrefold, centre forward, centreground, Centre Hastings, centre-left, centreline, Centrelink, centreman, centre mark, centremost, centre of attention, centre of buoyancy, centre of cavity, centre of curvature, centre of displacement, centre of effort, centre of flotation, centre of gravity, centre of inertia, centre of lift, centre of mass, centrepiece, centrepin, centrepunch, centreright, centre-right, centre stage, Centreville, centreward, centrish, centrism, centroid, chromocentre, civic centre, colour centre, concentre, cooling centre, daycare centre, day centre, decentre, ecocentre, epicentre, F-centre, friendship centre, front-and-centre, garden centre, hypocentre, isocentre, Jobcentre, megacentre, metacentre, metallocentre, Middlesex Centre, multi-centre, Newton Centre, Nickel Centre, oculocentre, orthocentre, pericentre, photocentre, playcentre, reception centre, rest centre, Rockville Centre, stereocentre, supercentre, table centre, telecentre, Thames Centre, tuition centre, uncentre