Corner

See also: corner

English

Proper noun

Corner (countable and uncountable, plural Corners)

1. A surname.
2. An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, at the "corner" of three counties.
3. A township in Custer County, Nebraska, United States; it is in the north-east corner of the county.

Proper noun

the Corner

1. Ellipsis of Hyde Park Corner.
2. (by extension, archaic, colloquial) The Tattersalls horse repository and betting rooms, originally located at Hyde Park Corner.
   • 1885, All the Year Round (page 345)

     Indeed, the whole aspect of the Corner, with its open space and green lawns, is so different from what it once was that it requires a glance at the sturdy brick wall of Buckingham Palace Gardens […] to assure the wanderer that, after all, nothing very revolutionary has occurred, and that things are much as they used to be twenty years ago.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Corner is the 13477^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2256 individuals. Corner is most common among White (73.23%) and Black/African American (20.79%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Cerron

German

Etymology

Borrowed from English corner.

Noun

Corner m (strong, genitive Corners, plural Corner)

1. (soccer, Austria, Switzerland) corner kick

   Synonyms: Ecke, Eckball

Declension

Declension of Corner [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Corner	die	Corner
genitive	eines	des	Corners	der	Corner
dative	einem	dem	Corner	den	Cornern
accusative	einen	den	Corner	die	Corner

Further reading

• “Corner” in Duden online
• “Corner”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)