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. Short for 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 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
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

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
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