How to spell corner

Corner is spelled C-O-R-N-E-R.

hear itcor·ner/'kɔrnər/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: A place where two walls meet.

In a sentence: The cat hid in the corner of the room.

Same family: corners, cornered, cornering, street-corner, cornerstone. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Corner comes from Old French 'corner' and Latin 'cornu', meaning 'horn' or 'point.' The idea of a pointed edge or angle led to our modern meaning of the angle where two walls or streets meet.

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