Other forms: corners
A corner is the point where two streets meet. On the corner.
It is where shops were always built, since two streets of people pass it. To be cornered is to have nowhere left to go, from the same picture.
1nouncornerThe point where two streets meet.
“The corner shop stayed open when everything else closed.”
corner is a place.
From Latin cornū, a horn or jutting point. A corner is where something sticks out, and it has nothing whatever to do with corn.
Middle English
corner
English, today
corner
Built from
From Middle English corner. 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".
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