center of attention

1. 1.

   the object upon which interest and attention focuses

   “his stories made him the center of the party”

   Synonymscentercentrecentre of attention

   Broaderobject

   Narrowerconversation piececrosshairscynosureeye-catcher

   Canada · United Kingdom

Questions about center of attention

What does center of attention mean?

center of attention means "the object upon which interest and attention focuses".

What is another word for center of attention?

Close synonyms include center, centre, centre of attention. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is center of attention a common word?

center of attention is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.