corner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The point where two walls, edges, or sides meet.

   A clown danced alone in one corner of the room.

2. 2
   noun

   The place where two streets meet.

   They were standing on the corner, watching people pass by.

3. 3
   noun

   A distant or remote part of a place.

   In many corners of the world, this custom still survives.

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Simplified etymology

Corner comes ultimately from Latin cornu, meaning “horn,” “tip,” or “projecting point.” A corner was understood as the part of something that projects or forms its tip.

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, fr…

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