four corners
Speech parts
1. four corners - Noun
2. Four corners - Proper noun
Meaning
The quadripoint at the borders of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, and the region surrounding it.
A type of patience card game.
four corners pl (plural only)
(law) The face of a document or its contents, considered without reference to any outside information.
Examples
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
It is Japan's mission to be supreme in Asia, the South Seas and eventually the four corners of the world.
We will export death and violence to the four corners of the earth in defense of our great nation.
I have panicked unnecessarily in all four corners of the globe.
It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something.
A great wind came forth, the clouds rose on high. Now that my might rules all within the seas, I have returned to my old village. Where will I find brave men to guard the four corners of my land?