centre of attention

1. 1.

   the object upon which interest and attention focuses

   “his stories made him the center of the party”

   Synonymscentercentrecenter of attention

   Broaderobject

   Narrowerconversation piececrosshairscynosureeye-catcher

   Canada · United Kingdom

Questions about centre of attention

What does centre of attention mean?

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

What is another word for centre of attention?

Close synonyms include center, centre, center 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 centre of attention a common word?

centre 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.