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say it: huhb
hub is a noun meaning "the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes". It is pronounced /ˈhʌb/ — huhb. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes
a center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve
“the playground is the hub of parental supervision”
“the airport is the economic hub of the area”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for hub come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.