corner

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the intersection of two streets

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

2. 2
   noun

   (architecture) solid exterior angle of a building

   Let's meet at the north east corner of the library.

3. 3
   noun

   an interior angle formed by two meeting walls

   A clown danced alone in one corner of the room.

4. 4
   noun

   the point where two lines meet or intersect

   The corners of a rectangle are 90 degrees.

5. 5
   noun

   a place off to the side of an area

   The ball bounced to the rightfield corner.

6. 6
   noun

   a remote area

   In many corners of the world, slavery is still practiced.

7. 7
   noun

   the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect

   The corners of a cube are where the planes meet.

8. 8
   noun

   a projecting part where two sides or edges meet

   They broke the corner off that sculpture.

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, fr…