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Meaning of cater-cornered

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

cater-cornered

adjective

Definitions

  1. Of or pertaining to something at a diagonal to another; of four corners, those diagonal to another.

    Example: 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.

  2. Uneven, not square, as mislaid stones or people with a limping gait.