corner
a place off to the side of an area
How often you will meet it
Rank 671 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 28,481 times across 173,499 chapters — 0.014% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 1,000 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
noun
- a place off to the side of an area he tripled to the rightfield cornerthe southeastern corner of the Mediterranean
- the point where two lines meet or intersect the corners of a rectangle
- an interior angle formed by two meeting walls also: nook a piano was in one corner of the room
- the intersection of two streets also: street corner, turning point standing on the corner watching all the girls go by
- the point where three areas or surfaces meet or intersect the corners of a cube
- a small concavity also: recess, recession, niche
corner in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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And be sure to take the car at the corner.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Just inside it, at the north-east corner, rises the tree.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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She turned away abruptly, and looked toward the corner where Billy slept on a pallet.
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch · Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice · Chapter 1
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The wilds are everywhere--on the Thames Embankment, even in this God-forsaken corner of the world.
The Betrayal · E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim · Chapter 1
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She'll corner Walderhurst and talk literature and roll her eyes at him until he hates her.
Emily Fox-Seton · Frances Hodgson Burnett · Chapter 1