Central

See also: central

English

Proper noun

Central

1. A former local government region in central Scotland, created in 1975 mainly from Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: Clackmannanshire, Falkirk and Stirling (which were districts within the region).
2. An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.
   • 2008 April 16, Joyce Hor-Chung Lau, “What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 April 2023, In Transit‎^[2]:

     The best places to find “siu sik” (“small eats” in Cantonese) are in the labyrinthine streets Causeway Bay and Tsim Sha Tsui. There is very little of this in sanitized Central.

   • 2013 May 20, Donny Kwok, Lavinia Mo, Yimou Lee, Twinnie Siu, “On fleeting Hong Kong trips, Chinese make frugal fashionable”, in Anne Marie Roantree, Miral Fahmy, editors, Reuters‎^[3], archived from the original on 30 June 2024, Business:

     Last month, L Brands Inc lingerie chain Victoria's Secrets chose to locate its first Hong Kong stores at the mall and the prime downtown district of Central. […]
     British fashion brand Topshop will open a 14,000 sq ft store in Central in June, paying $516,000 a month in rent.

   • 2015 October 2, Emily Rauhala, “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, one year later”, in The Washington Post‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 October 2015, World‎^[5]:

     Thousands of protesters block the main street leading to the financial area known as the Central district outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sept. 28, 2014.

   • 2016 July 7, Dina Mishev, “Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel”, in The Washington Post‎^[6], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 July 2016‎^[7]:

     For non-hikers, this tram, in operation since 1888, takes passengers from the bottom of Hong Kong Island’s Central neighborhood up 1,312 feet on Victoria Peak, the island’s highest mountain.

   • 2017 November 1, “Li Ka-shing’s Central skyscraper The Center sold for record HK$40.2 bn”, in Hong Kong Free Press‎^[8], archived from the original on 06 July 2025, Hong Kong:

     The sale of The Center, a 73-storey building in Hong Kong’s bustling Central district, surpassed a transaction earlier this year, where a prime commercial lot — occupied by a multi-storey car park also in Central — was sold off for HK$23.28 billion by the government to Henderson Land, which is owned by the city’s second richest man, Lee Shau-kee.

3. The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
4. A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.
5. A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.

See also

• Central Region

Portuguese

Proper noun

Central ?

1. a municipality of Bahia, Brazil

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /θenˈtɾal/ [θẽn̪ˈt̪ɾal] (Spain, Equatorial Guinea)
• IPA^(key): /senˈtɾal/ [sẽn̪ˈt̪ɾal] (Latin America, Philippines)
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: Cen‧tral

Proper noun

Central ?

1. a department of Paraguay

Derived terms

• centralense