Corners

Part of speech: noun, verb

Pronunciation: /ˈkɔɹnɚz/

Definitions

1. The areas formed where two surfaces or lines meet include defined boundaries, significant locations in navigation or design, and essential junctures in making decisions or solving problems
2. The places on an object or shape where two edges come together to form an angle
3. Locations at the meeting points of lines or surfaces, often used in geometry and design

Etymology: The most striking fact is that "corner" originally meant "horn." Its ancestor in Latin, "cornū," referred to the projecting horn of an animal, and the sense of a projecting point gave rise to the idea of an angle or end. Old French "corne" carried both senses, "horn" and "corner, angle," and English borrowed the word through Anglo-Norman "cornere" in the Middle Ages, when it began to describe the meeting point of two edges. English already had its own word for this idea. Old English "hyrne," from a Germanic root meaning "little horn, hook, angle," survived into Middle English as "hirn" or "herne," and is still used today in the form "hirn" for a nook or hidden corner. The two words have the same horn-based imagery, so the shared meaning is no coincidence. The Old French sense of "angle" may even have been a translation of a Frankish word that also meant "horn." "Corners" is simply the plural of "corner," so the same history applies to every plural use.

Synonyms: edges, turns, angles

Antonyms: centers