corner – English noun declension

English noun forms of corner

Noun: corner
Singularcorner
Pluralcorners

Sample Sentences

  • The corners of the wire mesh were reinforced with little blobs of solder.
  • The chimney corner was full of cobwebs.
  • They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too. [1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:]
  • The Altay Mountains to the north prevent rain clouds from reaching the Gurbantünggüt Desert, which fills the center of the Junggar Basin in China's northwest corner. [1982, The Desert Realm, National Geographic Society, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 221:]
  • Herbert bruised his shin on the corner of the coffee table.
  • The liquor store on the corner also sold lottery tickets.
  • corner store, corner deli, corner newsagent
  • Shining a light in the dark corners of the mind.  I took a trip out to his corner of town.
  • Why, that’s the lady: all the world desires her; / From the four corners of the earth they come, / To kiss this shrine, this mortal-breathing saint: [c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii]:]
  • Indian English is today one of the most widespread and abundantly used varieties of English, in extensive use not only throughout South Asia but in virtually every corner of the globe. [2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 248:]
  • On weekends, Emily liked to find a quiet corner and curl up with a good book.
  • In the 1970s, private investors tried to get a corner on the silver market, but were ultimately unsuccessful.
  • It's not my oppression, it's not your oppression but rather our oppression. No one of us has a corner on oppression. [1974 April 6, Sheri, “Women's Oppression and Separatism vs. Gay Liberation for All”, in Gay Community News, page 4:]
  • The pitch was just off the corner, low and outside.
  • There are runners on the corners with just one out.
  • Welcome to our English corner.

Etymology

1. 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".
2. * Displaced native cognate Middle English hirn, herne, from Old English hyrne, from Proto-Germanic *hurnijǭ (“little horn, hook, angle, corner”), whence modern English hirn (“nook, corner”), itself related to horn. Also displaced native Old English sċēat. See: Middle English Nouns 'corner', Latin Nouns 'cornua', Old English Nouns 'hyrne'.

Verbs referencing "corner"

Dutch Nouns corner, French Nouns corner, Romanian Nouns corner, Belarusan Nouns корнер, Catalan Nouns córner, Zulu Nouns ikhona, German Nouns Corner.