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centre

Syllables: cen·tre/ˈsɛntɚ/UK/ˈsɛntəː/

centre noun: australia, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center. Also the alternative spelling of center.

Noun

centre (plural centres)

  1. 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

Proper noun capitalized: Centre

Centre

  1. A former administrative region of France, now named Centre-Val de Loire.
  2. A city, the county seat of Cherokee County, Alabama.
  3. Centre County, Pennsylvania.

Also used as

centre is also the alternative spelling of center.

centre meaning in Malayalam, Kannada and Gujarati

centre in Malayalam

കേന്ദ്രം, സെന്റർ

centre in Kannada

ಕೇಂದ್ರ, ಕೇಂದ್ರವು, ಕೇಂದ್ರಬಿಂದುವಾಗಿದೆ

centre in Gujarati

કેન્દ્ર, કેન્દ્રસ્થાન

Examples of centre in a sentence

  • Most of the site was occupied by huts, but there was an open area in the centre.
  • Lots of shops in the town centre have closed because of the recession.
  • Smith started the game in the centre of midfield, but moved to the wing after 30 minutes.

All 40 example sentences with centre

Forms of centre

Noun
pluralcentres
alternative UScenter
Verb
third-person singular presentcentres
present participlecentring
past participlecentred
pastcentred
present participle (rare)centreing

Plural of centre: centres

Origin of centre

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.

Words formed from centre

Phrases with centre

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Words that rhyme with centre

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Questions about centre

What does centre mean?
Centre means australia, UK, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa standard spelling of center.
What is centre in Malayalam?
Centre in Malayalam is കേന്ദ്രം, സെന്റർ. See Centre meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is centre?
Centre can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce centre?
Centre is pronounced /ˈsɛntəː/ (UK).
What is the plural of centre?
The plural of centre is centres.

Words near centre in the dictionary

  1. centranucleation
  2. centraparietal
  3. centrarchid
  4. centrarchids
  5. centration
  6. centre
  7. centre back
  8. centre backs
  9. centre circle
  10. centre circles
  11. centre console

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: centre (page history and authors); Centre (page history and authors); centre (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); centre (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); centre (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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