cater-corner

Speech parts

1. cater-corner - Adjective

2. cater-corner - Adverb

Meaning

(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.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

diagonally transversely crosswise sidelong aslant cater-cornered obliquely crossways kitty-corner catercorner kitty-cornered catty-cornered catty-corner cornerwise

Close letter words and terms

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