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Central

adjective

Serving as an essential component. Synonyms: cardinal, fundamental, key, primal. "The central cause of the problem" , "An example that was fundamental to the argument" , "Computers are fundamental to modern industrial structure"

In or near a center or constituting a center; the inner area.

noun

A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication. Synonyms: exchange, telephone exchange.

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"Central" Quotes from Famous Books

... it's Madame Beattie," said Alston carelessly, even it might have been a little amused at the possibilities. "If there's a ferment anywhere north of Central America she's pretty certain to have set ...

— The Prisoner • Alice Brown

... insatiable fury to be acted by both parties, and which must have involved all settled here in destruction. Our feelings may therefore be imagined, when we were informed that a parliament had been convened, and all the parties interested were present by invitation, and took part in the debate. A central spot was fixed on to accommodate the various chieftains. The causes of the accident were then explained; they wept and lamented the fallen chiefs, and finally retired satisfied to their several homes. Surely everyone ...

— A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 • Augustus Earle

... lived in this country for forty years," he cried, with his eyes fixed upon Laguerre, "and you are the first white man I have known who has not come into it, either flying from the law, or to rob and despoil it. I know this country. I know all of Central America, and it is a wonderful country. There is not a fruit nor a grain nor a plant that you cannot dig out of it with your bare fingers. It has great forests, great pasture-lands, and buried treasures of silver and iron and gold. But it is cursed with ...

— Captain Macklin • Richard Harding Davis

... castle, singly and in groups, like small dogs round their master. They looked as if they had been there for centuries. Probably they had, as they were made of stone as solid as that of the castle. There must have been a time, thought George, when the castle was the central rallying-point for all those scattered homes; when rumour of danger from marauders had sent all that little community scuttling for safety to the ...

— A Damsel in Distress • Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

... we reach Aspinwall in the Republic of Granada. The President of New Granada is a Central American named Mosquero. I was told that he derived quite a portion of his income by carrying passengers' valises and things from the steamer to the hotels in Aspinwall. It was an infamous falsehood. Fancy A. Lincoln carrying carpet-bags and things! ...

— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 4 • Charles Farrar Browne

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