A corner shop is the small local shop that sells a bit of everything. Run to the corner shop.
They were built on street corners at the end of terraces, which is where the name comes from. A corner shop survives on hours and convenience rather than price.
1nouncorner shopThe small local shop that sells a bit of everything.
“The corner shop opened at six and closed at eleven every day of the year.”
corner shop is a shop.
Named from the position at the end of a terrace, where a shop was built into the corner house.
Such shops were traditionally built on street corners at the end of rows of terraced houses.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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