centrepiece

1. 1.

   the central or most important feature

   “education was the centerpiece of the Democratic Party's political platform”

   Synonymscenterpiece

   Broaderfeature

   Canada · United Kingdom

2. 2.

   something placed at the center of something else (as on a table)

   Synonymscenterpiece

   Broaderdecoration

   Narrowerepergne

   Canada · United Kingdom

Other forms of centrepiece

plural

centrepieces·

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 centrepiece

What does centrepiece mean?

centrepiece means "the central or most important feature". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in centrepiece?

centrepiece has 3 syllables: cen-tre-piece. The stress falls on "cen".

What is another word for centrepiece?

Close synonyms include centerpiece, centerpiece. 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 centrepiece a common word?

centrepiece is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.