Usually means: Point where two lines meet.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. corner: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. corner, corner: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. corner: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. corner, the Corner: Collins English Dictionary
  5. corner: Vocabulary.com
  6. Corner, corner: Wordnik
  7. corner: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Corner, corner: Wiktionary
  9. corner: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. corner: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. corner: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. corner: Dictionary.com
  13. corner: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Corner (fence), Corner (route), Corner, The Corner (UVA), The Corner (film), The Corner (song), The Corner: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Corner: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. corner: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. corner: Rhymezone
  18. corner: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. corner: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Corner, Corner, Corner: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. corner: Free Dictionary
  22. corner: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Corner, corner: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. corner: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. corner: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. corner: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Corner: Investopedia
  3. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  4. corner: Legal dictionary
  5. corner: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. corner: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. corner: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Corner: Easton Bible
  2. Corner: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. corner, corner, corner: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. corner, the corner: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Corner: Croquet
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Corner: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See cornered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The point where two converging lines meet; an angle, either external or internal.
noun:  The space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point.
noun:  The projection into space of an angle in a solid object.
noun:  An intersection of two streets; any of the four outer points off the street at that intersection.
noun:  (Maine) The neighborhood surrounding an intersection of rural roads.
noun:  (attributive) Denoting a premises that is in a convenient local location, notionally, but not necessarily literally, on the corner of two streets.
noun:  An edge or extremity; the part farthest from the center; hence, any quarter or part, or the direction in which it lies.
noun:  A secret or secluded place; a remote or out of the way place; a nook.
noun:  An embarrassing situation; a difficulty.
noun:  (business, finance) A sufficient interest in a salable security or commodity to allow the cornering party to influence prices.
noun:  (figuratively) Complete control or ownership of something.
noun:  (heading) Relating to the playing field.
noun:  (baseball) One of the four vertices of the strike zone.
noun:  (baseball) First base or third base.
noun:  (soccer) A corner kick.
noun:  (American football) A cornerback.
noun:  (boxing) The corner of the ring, which is where the boxer rests before and during a fight.
noun:  (boxing, by extension) The group of people who assist a boxer during a bout.
noun:  A place where people meet for a particular purpose.
noun:  (obsolete) A point scored in a rubber at whist.
verb:  (transitive) To drive (someone or something) into a corner or other confined space.
verb:  (transitive) To trap in a position of great difficulty or hopeless embarrassment.
verb:  (transitive) To put (someone) in an awkward situation.
verb:  (finance, business, transitive) To get sufficient command of (a stock, commodity, etc.), so as to be able to manipulate its price.
verb:  (automotive, transitive) To turn a corner or drive around a curve.
verb:  (automotive, intransitive) To handle while moving around a corner in a road or otherwise turning.
verb:  (transitive) To supply with corners.
noun:  One who corns, or preserves food in salt.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, at the "corner" of three counties.
noun:  A township in Custer County, Nebraska, United States; it is in the north-east corner of the county.
noun:  (by extension, archaic, colloquial) The Tattersalls horse repository and betting rooms, originally located at Hyde Park Corner.
noun:  Short for Hyde Park Corner. [A major road junction at the south-east corner of Hyde Park, London, England; Hyde Park Corner tube station is underneath the junction. (OS grid ref TQ2879).]

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