cater-corner
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˈkætəˌkɔɹnɚ/
cater-corner (not comparable)
- (US, Canada) Of or pertaining to something at a diagonal to another; of four corners, those diagonal to another.
- The Empire State Building and the old Altman's Department store are catercorner, at Fifth Avenue and East 34th Street, with the ESB at the southwest, and Altman's at the northeast.
- (UK dialect, obsolete) Uneven, not square, as mislaid stones or people with a limping gait.
cater-corner (not comparable)
- (US, Canada) Diagonally across from.
- Altman's is sited catercorner to the ESB.
- German: schräg gegenüber
- Russian: на́искось
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