Corner
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English
Proper noun
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
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
- 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
Noun
Corner m (strong, genitive Corners, plural Corner)
Declension
Declension of Corner