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Central
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central
English
Etymology 1
+ Region, Scotland
From central.
Proper noun
en A former local government <<region>> in central <<cc/Scotland>>, created in 1975 mainly from en Stirlingshire, abolished in 1996 and divided into 3 council areas: en Clackmannanshire, en Falkirk and en Stirling (which were districts within the region).
en area district/Central and Western sar/Hong Kong.
en APRIL 16, 2008 Joyce Hor-Chung Lau What in God’s Name is That? Hong Kong Street Food, Part 1 w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20230419185613/https://archive.nytimes.com/intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/what-in-gods-name-is-that-hong-kong-street-food-part-1/ 0362-4331 1645522 In Transit https://archive.is/lpxsT 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.
en May 20, 2013 Donny Kwok Lavinia Mo Yimou Lee Twinnie Siu On fleeting Hong Kong trips, Chinese make frugal fashionable Anne Marie Roantree; Miral Fahmy w:Reuters https://archive.ph/yhsHa https://www.reuters.com/article/business/on-fleeting-hong-kong-trips-chinese-make-frugal-fashionable-idUSBRE94J000/ June 30, 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.
en October 2, 2015 Emily Rauhala Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement, one year later w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20151015122439/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kongs-umbrella-movement-one-year-later/2015/10/01/d496e6ba-6781-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html 15 October 2015 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/hong-kongs-umbrella-movement-one-year-later/2015/10/01/d496e6ba-6781-11e5-9ef3-fde182507eac_story.html 0190-8286 2269358 World https://archive.ph/p8w8x 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.
en July 7, 2016 Dina Mishev Hong Kong’s urban jungle is real, not a metaphor for concrete and steel w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20160708235510/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/hong-kongs-urban-jungle-is-real-not-a-metaphor-for-concrete-and-steel/2016/07/07/bc6951d8-3c77-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html 08 July 2016 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/hong-kongs-urban-jungle-is-real-not-a-metaphor-for-concrete-and-steel/2016/07/07/bc6951d8-3c77-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html 0190-8286 2269358 https://archive.ph/FTXXy 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.
en 1 November 2017 Li Ka-shing’s Central skyscraper The Center sold for record HK$40.2 bn w:Hong Kong Free Press https://archive.ph/JaUWE https://hongkongfp.com/2017/11/01/li-ka-shings-central-skyscraper-center-sold-record-hk40-2-bn/ 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.
The Central Line of the London Underground, originally known as the Central London Railway.
en district county:Suf/Rasht p:Suf/Gilan c/Iran.
Adjective
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en history Of or pertaining to the Central Powers. 1910s
en National and English Review https://books.google.com/books?id=BysjAQAAMAAJ LXIX London 1917 625 https://books.google.com/books?id=BysjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA625 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.
See also
en Central Region
Etymology 2
en es Central.
Proper noun
en barangay mun/Kapangan p/Benguet c/Philippines.
en barangay mun/Tarlac City p/Tarlac c/Philippines.
See also
heading CAR Benguet Kapangan
heading III Tarlac Tarlac City
en London
Portuguese
Proper noun
pt municipality s/Bahia c/Brazil
Spanish
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es department c/Paraguay
Derived terms
es centralense