centner

1. 1.

   a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms

   Synonymshundredweightmetric hundredweightdoppelzentner

   Broadermetric weight unit

   Part ofquintal
2. 2.

   in some European countries: a unit of weight equivalent to 50 kilograms

   Broadermetric weight unit

   Part ofhundredweight

   Partsmyriagram
3. 3.

   a United States unit of weight equivalent to 100 pounds

   Synonymshundredweightcwtshort hundredweightcentalquintal

   Broaderavoirdupois unit

   Part ofshort ton

   Partsquarter

Other forms of centner

plural

centners·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about centner

What does centner mean?

centner means "a unit of weight equal to 100 kilograms". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in centner?

centner has 2 syllables: cent-ner. The stress falls on "cent". In IPA it is /ˈsɛntnɚ/.

What is another word for centner?

Close synonyms include hundredweight, metric hundredweight, doppelzentner, hundredweight, cwt. 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 centner a common word?

centner 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.