epicentre

1. 1.

   the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake

   Synonymsepicenter

   Broadergeographic point

   Canada · United Kingdom

Other forms of epicentre

plural

epicentres·

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 epicentre

What does epicentre mean?

epicentre means "the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake".

How many syllables are in epicentre?

epicentre has 3 syllables: e-pi-centre. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for epicentre?

Close synonyms include epicenter. 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 epicentre a common word?

epicentre 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.