HUB: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for HUB?

Need another word that means the same as “hub”? Find 13 synonyms and 30 related words for “hub” in this overview.

The synonyms of “Hub” are: pivot, axis, fulcrum, centre, centre point, centre of activity, core, heart, focus, middle, nucleus, kernel, nerve centre

Hub as a Noun

Definitions of "Hub" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “hub” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A central airport or other transport facility from which many services operate.
• The central part of a wheel, rotating on or with the axle, and from which the spokes radiate.
• A center of activity or interest or commerce or transportation; a focal point around which events revolve.
• The central part of a car wheel (or fan or propeller etc) through which the shaft or axle passes.
• The effective centre of an activity, region, or network.

Synonyms of "Hub" as a noun (13 Words)

axis	The main stem or central part about which plant organs or plant parts such as branches are arranged. The Earth revolves on its axis once every 24 hours.
centre	A place where some particular activity is concentrated. A conference centre.
centre of activity	The capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction.
centre point	A contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs.
core	The central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work. The ball has a titanium core.
focus	The state or quality of having or producing clear visual definition. Out of focus.
fulcrum	The pivot about which a lever turns. Research is the fulcrum of the academic community.
heart	The heart regarded as the centre of a person s thoughts and emotions especially love compassion or loyalty. You haven t got the heart for baseball.
kernel	A single whole grain of a cereal. This is the kernel of the argument.
middle	The middle area of the human torso usually in front. He had a towel round his middle.
nerve centre	Impudent aggressiveness.
nucleus	(astronomy) the center of the head of a comet; consists of small solid particles of ice and frozen gas that vaporizes on approaching the sun to form the coma and tail. The nucleus of a British film producing industry.
pivot	A movement in which the player holding the ball may move in any direction with one foot while keeping the other the pivot foot in contact with the floor. The pivot of community life was the chapel.

Usage Examples of "Hub" as a noun

• The airport is the economic hub of the area.
• The kitchen was the hub of family life.
• The city's major transportation hub for bus and rail.
• The city has always been the financial hub of the country.
• The airport authority's policy promotes Manchester as an international hub.
• Major hub airports have grown up all over the world.
• The playground is the hub of parental supervision.

Associations of "Hub" (30 Words)

capital	Of primary importance. Rates of return on invested capital were high.
center	Move into the center. Her entire attention centered on her children.
centered	Being or placed in the center.
central	A workplace that serves as a telecommunications facility where lines from telephones can be connected together to permit communication. His preoccupation with history is central to his work.
chief	A person who is in charge. The chief reason for the spending cuts.
city	A town created a city by charter and usually containing a cathedral. The city voted for Republicans in 1994.
civic	Relating to a city or town, especially its administration; municipal. Civic pride.
concentric	Of or denoting circles, arcs, or other shapes which share the same centre, the larger often completely surrounding the smaller. Concentric circles indicate distances of 1 km 2 km and 3 km from the centre.
core	Remove the core or center from. Core an apple.
depopulate	Reduce in population. The disease could depopulate a town the size of Bournemouth.
elements	Violent or severe weather viewed as caused by the action of the four elements. They felt the full fury of the elements.
equatorial	A telescope whose mounting has only two axes of motion, one parallel to the Earth’s axis and the other one at right angles to it. Equatorial regions.
essentialness	Basic importance.
focal	Having or localized centrally at a focus. Focal point.
focus	Place the focus on an element of a sentence. Out of focus.
gist	The real point of an action. I need a good friend I can always gist with.
key	Vandalize a car by scraping its paint with a key. She keyed in a series of commands.
leading	The activity of leading. The leading man.
main	The open ocean. The main problem is one of resources.
major	Of an interval equivalent to that between the tonic and another note of a major scale and greater by a semitone than the corresponding minor interval. She is a linguistics major.
metropolis	A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts. By the late eighteenth century Edo had grown to a metropolis with a population of nearly one million.
pivot	The act of turning on or as if on a pivot. The pivot of community life was the chapel.
pivotal	Being of crucial importance- Henry Kissinger. A sliding or pivotal motion.
primary	A primary feather. A primary instinct.
prime	A prime number. The prime of the world.
principal	An actor who plays a principal role. A design consultancy whose principal is based in San Francisco.
reel	A length of something wound on to a reel. She reeled back against the van.
spoke	Each of the bars or wire rods connecting the centre of a wheel to its outer edge.
swivel	Turn around a point or axis or on a swivel. She swivelled her eyes round.
urban	Located in or characteristic of a city or city life. The urban population.