corner
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈkɔːnə(ɹ)/
ipa: /ˈkɔɹnɚ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nə(ɹ)
Forms: form: corners
Etymology: From Middle English corner, from Anglo-Norman cornere (compare Old French cornier, corniere (“corner”)), from Old French corne (“corner, angle”, literally “a horn, projecting point”), from Vulgar Latin *corna (“horn”), from Latin cornua, plural of cornū (“projecting point, end, horn”). The sense of "angle, corner" in Old French is not found in Latin or other Romance languages. It was possibly calqued from Frankish *hurnijā (“corner, angle”), which is similar to, and derived from *hurn, the Frankish word for "horn". Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn.
Senses: examples: text: The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.
glosses: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
examples: text: The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.
text: They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.
ref: 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:
text: The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner.
ref: 1982, The Desert Realm, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 221:
glosses: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
examples: text: Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.
glosses: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
examples: text: The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets.
glosses: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
glosses: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
examples: text: corner store, corner deli, corner newsagent
glosses: The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
examples: text: Shining a light in the dark corners of the mind.  I took a trip out to his corner of town.
text: Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint:
ref: c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:
text: Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe.
ref: 2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 248:
glosses: An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
examples: text: On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book.
glosses: A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
glosses: An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
examples: text: In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
topics: business
finance
glosses: A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
examples: text: It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression.
ref: 1974 April 6, Sheri, “Women's Oppression and Separatism vs. Gay Liberation for All”, in Gay Community News, page 4:
topics: business
finance
glosses: A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
Complete control or ownership of something.
examples: text: The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Relating to the playing field.
One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
examples: text: There are runners on the corners with just one out.
topics: ball-games
baseball
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Relating to the playing field.
First base or third base.
topics: ball-games
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
soccer
sports
glosses: Relating to the playing field.
A corner kick.
topics: American-football
ball-games
football
games
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: Relating to the playing field.
A cornerback.
topics: boxing
government
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Relating to the playing field.
The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
topics: boxing
government
heading
hobbies
lifestyle
martial-arts
military
politics
sports
war
glosses: Relating to the playing field.
The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
examples: text: Welcome to our English corner.
glosses: A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
glosses: A point scored in a rubber at whist.
Synonyms: angle
bend
cranny
hern
hideaway
hirn
nook
recess
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from corner
word: around the corner
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word: at the corner
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word: back oneself into a corner
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word: boundary corner
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word: box oneself into a corner
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word: cater-corner
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word: catty-corner
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word: chimney-corner
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word: chimney corner
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word: coffin corner
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word: cornerback
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word: corner bath
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word: corner boy
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word: corner bracket
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word: cornercap
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word: corner case
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word: corner flag
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word: corner forward
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word: corner infield
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word: corner infielder
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word: corner kick
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word: cornerless
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word: cornerlike
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word: cornerman
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word: corner man
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word: corner office
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word: corner of the eye
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word: corner of the mouth
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word: cornerpiece
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word: corner pub
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word: corner quote
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word: corner shop
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word: corner solution
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word: cornersome
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word: cornerstone
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word: corner-stone
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word: corner store
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word: corner throw
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word: corner time
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word: corner tooth
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word: cornerways
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word: cornerwise
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word: cow corner
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word: Coxs Corner
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word: cum corner
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word: cut corners
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word: cut off a corner
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word: Dangerous Corner
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word: Dutch corner
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word: elephant in the corner
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word: every nook and corner
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word: fight one's corner
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word: happy corner
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word: Hell Corner
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word: hole-and-corner
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word: hospital corner
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word: hot corner
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word: Hyde Park Corner
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word: in a corner
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word: in one's corner
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word: in someone's corner
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word: keystone corner
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word: kitty-corner
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word: kitty corner
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word: kitty wants a corner
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word: long corner
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word: nook and corner
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word: out of the corner of one's eye
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word: paint oneself into a corner
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word: penalty corner
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word: pick corners
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word: pincushion corner
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word: puss in the corner
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word: pussy wants a corner
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word: Pye Corner
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word: round the corner
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word: Scotch Corner
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word: short corner
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word: short-corner
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word: soft corner
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word: street corner
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word: streetcorner
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word: Tattenham Corner
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word: tricorner
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word: turn a corner
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word: turn the corner
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word: write oneself into a corner