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Dictionary definition: corner
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- The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
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cor·ner
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ˈkôrnər
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n.
1.
a place or angle where two or more sides or edges meet:
Jan sat at one corner of the table.
∎
an area inside a room, box, or square-shaped space, near the place where two or more edges or surfaces meet.
∎
a place where two streets meet:
an apartment on the corner of 199th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
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[as
adj.
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the corner house.
∎
fig.
a difficult or awkward situation:
he found himself
backed into a corner
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∎
first or third base on a baseball diamond.
∎
a sharp bend in a road.
2.
a part, region, or area, esp. one ...