Need another word that means the same as “corner”? Find 67 synonyms and 30 related words for “corner” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Corner” are: nook, niche, recess, recession, box, street corner, turning point, quoin, intersection, point, apex, cusp, cranny, bay, booth, alcove, bend, curve, arc, kink, crook, deviation, turn, turning, junction, fork, district, region, area, section, quarter, part, predicament, plight, spot of trouble, bit of bother, difficulty, problem, puzzle, quandary, dilemma, muddle, mess, quagmire, mire, mare's nest, tree, drive into a corner, run to earth, run to ground, bring to bay, cut off, block off, trap, hem in, shut in, pen in, close in, enclose, surround, gain control of, gain dominance of, take over, control, dominate, monopolize, capture
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “corner” as a noun can have the following definitions:
alcove | A recess in the wall of a room or garden. |
apex | The highest point in a plane or solid figure, relative to a base line or plane. The apex of the roof. |
arc | A shape or structure resembling an arc. The huge arc of the sky. |
area | A particular environment or walk of life. Rural areas of Britain. |
bay | A compartment on a ship between decks; often used as a hospital. He opened the bomb bay. |
bend | A kind of knot used to join two ropes together or to tie a rope to another object e g a carrick bend. A bend in the road. |
bit of bother | An instance of some kind. |
booth | United States actor and assassin of President Lincoln (1838-1865. They sat down in a booth and waited for a waiter to come over. |
box | The quantity contained in a box. He rummaged through a box of spare parts. |
cranny | A long narrow depression in a surface. Bugs and spiders conceal themselves in crannies of the bark. |
crook | The hooked staff of a shepherd. The man s a crook he s not to be trusted. |
curve | A pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter. Her dress twisted tightly round her generous curves. |
cusp | Small elevation on the grinding surface of a tooth. Those on the cusp of adulthood. |
deviation | The action of departing from an established course or accepted standard. Sexual deviation. |
difficulty | The state or condition of being difficult. Guy had no difficulty in making friends. |
dilemma | A difficult situation or problem. He wants to make money but he also disapproves of it Den s dilemma in a nutshell. |
district | An area of a country or city, especially one characterized by a particular feature or activity. A district health authority. |
fork | Denoting a light meal or buffet that may be eaten solely with a fork while standing. The left fork goes on to the village. |
intersection | A point or line common to lines or surfaces that intersect. The intersection of a plane and a cone. |
junction | An act of joining or adjoining things. The junction of the two rivers. |
kink | A painful muscle spasm especially in the neck or back (`rick’ and `wrick’ are British. Though the system is making some headway there are still some kinks to iron out. |
mare's nest | A gang of people (criminals or spies or terrorists) assembled in one locality. |
mess | A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel. The house was a mess. |
mire | A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. Caught in the mire of poverty. |
muddle | A confused multitude of things. She was able to cut through confusion and muddle. |
niche | The status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species. He found his niche in the academic world. |
nook | An interior angle formed by two meeting walls. The nook beside the fire. |
part | The part played by a person in bringing about a result. Glue the two parts together. |
plight | A situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one. We must direct our efforts towards relieving the plight of children living in poverty. |
point | A V shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer. A bird dog on point. |
predicament | A difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation. The club s financial predicament. |
problem | Denoting or relating to people whose behaviour causes difficulties to themselves and others. A problem family. |
puzzle | A jigsaw puzzle. Realization dawned as the pieces of the puzzle fell into place. |
quagmire | A soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. Torrential rain turned the building site into a quagmire. |
quandary | State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options. A legal quandary. |
quarter | A quarter of a hundredweight 28 pounds. A quarter after 4 o clock. |
quoin | Any of the stones or bricks forming a quoin a cornerstone. Smaller stations followed the same pattern stone built with strongly accented quoins. |
recess | A hollow space inside something. The concrete block has a recess in its base. |
recession | A small concavity. Measures to pull the economy out of recession. |
region | The approximate amount of something usually used prepositionally as in in the region of. His work takes needlework into the region of folk art. |
section | A secondary taxonomic category, especially a subgenus. A graduate student taught sections for the professor s lecture course. |
spot of trouble | A job in an organization. |
street corner | People living or working on the same street. |
turn | Turning or twisting around in place. He took a turn to the right. |
turning | The act of turning away or in the opposite direction. Take the first turning on the right. |
turning point | An unforeseen development. |
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “corner” as a verb can have the following definitions:
block off | Block passage through. |
bring to bay | Be sold for a certain price. |
capture | Bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit. The free electrons were moving too rapidly to be captured by nuclei. |
close in | Finish or terminate (meetings, speeches, etc. |
control | Control others or oneself or influence skillfully usually to one s advantage. He was appointed to control the company s marketing strategy. |
cut off | Cut off the testicles of male animals such as horses. |
dominate | Have power and influence over. The company dominates the market for operating system software. |
drive into a corner | Move into a desired direction of discourse. |
enclose | Enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering. The open fields in the parish were enclosed in 1808. |
gain control of | Obtain. |
gain dominance of | Win something through one’s efforts. |
hem in | Utter `hem’ or `ahem. |
monopolize | Have and control fully and exclusively. He monopolizes the laser printer. |
pen in | Produce a literary work. |
run to earth | Reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid state, usually by heating. |
run to ground | Continue to exist. |
shut in | Prevent from entering; shut out. |
surround | Surround so as to force to give up. The forest surrounds my property. |
take over | Be stricken by an illness, fall victim to an illness. |
trap | Catch in or as if in a trap. The gaps between the teeth trap food particles. |
tree | Chase an animal up a tree. This lot should be treed so that the house will be shaded in summer. |
angle | Move or be inclined at an angle. A skylight in the angle of the roof. |
banister | A single upright at the side of a staircase. She peered over the banisters. |
bending | The act of bending something. |
bevel | Cut a bevel on shape to a bevel. Bevel the surface. |
bisect | Divide into two parts. Bisect a line. |
building | The occupants of a building. The building of motorways. |
careen | Pitching dangerously to one side. A heavy flood tide caused my vessel to careen dizzily. |
delta | The 4th letter of the Greek alphabet. As long as the price delta is not too great consumers can be sold on specs and future proofing. |
ellipticity | The degree of deviation from circularity (or sphericity). |
gangling | Tall and thin and having long slender limbs. A gangling teenager. |
hypotenuse | The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle. |
incline | An inclined surface or plane a slope especially on a road or railway. I incline to the view that this conclusion is untenable. |
lean | Cause to lean or incline. A lean budget. |
location | The act of putting something in a certain place. The location of new housing beyond the existing built up areas. |
longitude | The angular distance of a place east or west of the Greenwich meridian, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes. At a longitude of 2 W. |
oblique | An oblique muscle. The axis of an oblique cone is not perpendicular to its base. |
obliquity | The quality of being deceptive. |
place | Take a place in a competition often followed by an ordinal. The children were placed with foster parents. |
recumbent | A type of bicycle designed to be ridden lying almost flat on one’s back. Recumbent statues. |
scarp | Provide a ditch in a fortification with a steep scarp and counterscarp. The scarped edge of the central plateau. |
side | A television channel considered as one of two or more that are available. They painted all four sides of the house. |
skew | Neither parallel nor at right angles to a specified or implied line askew crooked. The lines on the sheet of paper are skewed. |
slant | A sloping position. The hedge grew at a slant. |
tend | Have a tendency or disposition to do or be something be inclined. Walter tended towards corpulence. |
theta | The eighth star in a constellation. Theta Draconis. |
tilt | Charge with a tilt. He tilts at his prey. |
triangle | A musical instrument consisting of a steel rod bent into a triangle and sounded by being struck with a small steel rod. A small triangle of grass. |
vertex | The highest point (of something. |
yaw | An erratic deflection from an intended course. The yawing motion of the ship. |
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