STREET CORNER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does street corner mean? 

• STREET CORNER (noun)
  The noun STREET CORNER has 1 sense:

1. the intersection of two streets

  Familiarity information: STREET CORNER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREET CORNER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The intersection of two streets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

corner; street corner; turning point

Context example:

standing on the corner watching all the girls go by

Hypernyms ("street corner" is a kind of...):

carrefour; crossing; crossroad; crossway; intersection (a junction where one street or road crosses another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "street corner"):

blind corner (a street corner that you cannot see around as you are driving)

 Context examples 

A policeman on a street corner eyed him suspiciously, then noted his sailor roll.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I observed that as he stepped out he gave a most searching glance to right and left, and at every subsequent street corner he took the utmost pains to assure that he was not followed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The figure in these two phases haunted the lawyer all night; and if at any time he dozed over, it was but to see it glide more stealthily through sleeping houses, or move the more swiftly and still the more swiftly, even to dizziness, through wider labyrinths of lamplighted city, and at every street corner crush a child and leave her screaming.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The morning had worn away in these inquiries, and I was sitting on the step of an empty shop at a street corner, near the market-place, deliberating upon wandering towards those other places which had been mentioned, when a fly-driver, coming by with his carriage, dropped a horsecloth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)