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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).

proper noun

  1. 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. 2

    An area of Central and Western district, Hong Kong.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  3. 3

    The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.

  4. 4

    A district of Rasht County, Gilan Province, Iran.

Etymology

From central.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of or pertaining to the Central Powers.

    On this score, then, it is quite clear that up to now neither the Entente nor the Central armies have been outmanœuvred, or indeed have invented a weapon of offence that has produced decisive results.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A barangay of Kapangan, Benguet, Philippines.

  2. 2

    A barangay of Tarlac City, Tarlac, Philippines.

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Central.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

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