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centerfold

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • US: sĕnʹtər-fōld
  • US: /ˈsɛntɚfoʊld/
  • UK: /ˈsɛntəfəʊld/
  • CMU ARPABET: S EH1 N T ER0 F OW2 L D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The single larger sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication, folded so as to open wider than a standard page spread.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: foldout

2

noun

Meaning 2

A large photograph printed on this sheet, typically in the form of a nude, or provocatively dressed, sexually attractive woman or man.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pin-up

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The person appearing in such a photograph.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: pin-up, pin-up girl

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

Any very sexually attractive person, who is therefore material for such a photograph.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, broadly

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beefcake, bona omi, Chad, chicken, chick magnet, dimber cove, dreamboat, himbo, hunk, lady-killer, man-meat, pretty boy, rizzler, spunk, stud, stud muffin, superhunk, twink, angel, babe, beauty, belle, betty, bit of crumpet, bomb, bombshell, cookie, cupcake, cutie, dimber mort, doll, enchantress, femme fatale, fox, goddess, golden girl, HB, hottie, houri, jelly, knockout, looker, lovely, odalisque, peng ting, piece of crumpet, pretty, stoater, stunner, stunna, tchotchke, ten, vixen

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

a magazine center spread; especially a foldout of a large photograph or map or other feature

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: centrefold

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: spread, spread head, spreadhead, facing pages, foldout, gatefold

History

Etymology

From center + fold.

Across languages

Translations

15 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Dutch: middenblad — single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine
  • Finnish: keskiaukeama — single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine
  • German: mittlere Doppelseite — single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine
  • Polish: rozkładówka — single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine
  • Russian: разворо́т (razvorót) — single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine
  • Swedish: mittuppslag — single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine
  • Dutch: pin-up — large photograph printed on this sheet
  • Finnish: keskiaukeamakuva — large photograph printed on this sheet
  • Dutch: pin-up — person in such a photograph
  • Finnish: keskiaukeaman tyttö — person in such a photograph
  • Finnish: keskiaukeaman poika — person in such a photograph
  • French: pin-up — person in such a photograph
  • Dutch: pin-up — sexually attractive person
  • Dutch: vamp — sexually attractive person
  • French: pin-up — sexually attractive person