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center

center (basketball position)

noun SEN-ter Rare
Arts & Culture Sports

Also means

shopping centre

Usage Note

Center is an English loanword used in Italian primarily in basketball to name the centre position (il centro is used in general contexts, but center persists in sports jargon). As a foreign borrowing it is invariable — the plural is also center. In retail contexts Italians more often say centro commerciale, though center appears in some brand names.

Examples

"Il center della squadra ha segnato trenta punti."

Natural Translation

The team's center scored thirty points.

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