Corner
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See also: corner
English
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Corner (countable and uncountable, plural Corners)
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, at the "corner" of three counties.
- A township in Custer County, Nebraska, United States; it is in the north-east corner of the county.
Proper noun
[edit]the Corner
- Short for Hyde Park Corner.
- (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.
- 1885, All the Year Round (page 345)
Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Corner is the 13477th 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.
References
[edit]- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Anagrams
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]Corner m (strong, genitive Corners, plural Corner)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Corner [masculine, strong]
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