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say it: KAWR-nur
corner is a noun and verb meaning "a place off to the side of an area". It is pronounced /ˈkɔɹnɚ/ — KAWR-nur. It carries 14 recorded senses.
a place off to the side of an area
“he tripled to the rightfield corner”
“the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean”
an interior angle formed by two meeting walls
“a piano was in one corner of the room”
the intersection of two streets
“standing on the corner watching all the girls go by”
a small concavity
a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
“his lying got him into a tight corner”
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 corner 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.