Centre Place Long Table Middle Point Lot People

• the centre of a circle
• a long table in the centre of the room
• chocolates with soft centres
• in the town/city centre

centre

1. the middle point or part of something
• the centre of a circle
• a long table in the centre of the room
• chocolates with soft centres
2. the main part of a town or city where there are a lot of shops/stores and offices
• in the town/city centre
• the centre of town
• a town-centre car park
3. a place or an area where a lot of people live; a place where a lot of business or cultural activity takes place
• major urban/industrial centres
• a centre of population
• Small towns in South India serve as economic and cultural centres for the surrounding villages.
4. a building or place used for a particular purpose or activity
• see also fulfilment centre
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/fulfilment-centre
• a shopping/sports/leisure/community centre
• the Centre for Policy Studies
5. a place where a particular kind of work is done extremely well
• Darlington could become a regional centre of excellence for nursery nurse training.
6. the point towards which people direct their attention
• Children like to be the centre of attention.
• The prime minister is at the centre of a political row over leaked Cabinet documents.
7. having the thing mentioned as the most important feature or centre of attention
• see also self-centred
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/self-centred
• a child-centred approach to teaching
8. a moderate (= middle) political position or party, between the extremes of left-wing and right-wing parties
• a party of the centre
• Are her views to the left or right of centre?
• a centre party
9. a player or position in the middle of the pitch/field, court, etc.
10. in or into the most important position
• The issue has moved front and center in his presidential campaign.
11. in all directions; everywhere
• He's giving away money left, right and centre.

Extra Examples

• Politically, she is considered to be slightly left of centre.
• Politically, she is slightly left of centre.
• The university is a major centre for scientific research.
• Tokyo is one of the main financial centres of the world.
• We’ve bought a flat in the very centre of Cambridge.
• We’ve bought an apartment in the very centre of São Paulo.
• a museum in the centre of Birmingham
• a party that occupies the centre ground of British politics
• at the centre of the universe
• the economic nerve centre of Germany
• Children like to be the centre of attention.
• He could never doubt that he was the centre of her world.
• I had to get a taxi from the hotel to the conference centre.
• She always liked to feel that she was at the centre of things.
• The captain was at the centre of the action right through the game.
• The classes are run by the Centre for Languages and Literature.
• The university is recognized as an international centre of excellence for training dentists.
• There are plans for the development of a new leisure centre on the site.
• There was a long table in the centre of the room.
• They’ve set up a local centre for people with epilepsy.
• You can send fax or emails from our fully equipped business centre.
• a sports/leisure/community/shopping/conference/business centre

Word Origin

• late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin centrum, from Greek kentron ‘sharp point, stationary point of a pair of compasses’, related to kentein ‘to prick’.