Definition of Catacorner

1. Adjective. Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line. "Set off in a catty-corner direction across the vacant lot"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Catacorner

catachrestical
catachrestically
catachronobiology
cataclasm
cataclastic
cataclinal
cataclysm
cataclysmal
cataclysmic
cataclysmically
cataclysmist
cataclysmists
cataclysms
catacomb
catacombs
catacorner (current term)
catacoustic
catacoustics
catacrotic
catacrotic pulse
catacrotism
catadicrotic
catadicrotic pulse
catadicrotism
catadidymus
catadioptric
catadioptrics
catadromous
catafalco
catafalcoes

Literary usage of Catacorner

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cross Country with Horse and Hound by Frank Sherman Peer (1902)
"Over and over again they discuss the run of the day, straight, cross ways, and then "catacorner," as the farmers say they cultivate their corn. ..."

2. Annual Report of the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors by Association of Ontario Land Surveyors (1907)
"It seems, then, that in the land to the south they are rushing it to the limit—this Age which answers to the equation of— Criss-cross -f catacorner = F + ..."

3. How to Cook Husbands by Elizabeth Strong Worthington (1898)
"... for when Mrs. Catlin, who lived catacorner from me, and who watched me as a cat watches a mouse, said something one day about Mr. Chance's feeling bound ..."

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