central powers

1. 1.

   in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies

   Broaderalliance

Questions about central powers

What does central powers mean?

central powers means "in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies".

Is central powers a common word?

central powers 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.