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catacorner

catacorner is the alternative form of kitty-corner.

Meaning of kitty-corner

Adverb

kitty-corner (not comparable)

  1. (Canadian-Prairies, Northern-US) Cater-corner: located diagonally in relation to something, especially across an intersection.
    • Unit #5, kittycorner across the little street from Ennet House, is for catatonics and various vegetablish, fetal-positioned mental patients […].1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 196
    Synonyms:
    catty-corner

Questions about catacorner

What is catacorner the alternative form of?
Catacorner is the alternative form of kitty-corner.

Words near catacorner in the dictionary

  1. cataclysmists
  2. cataclysms
  3. catacomb
  4. catacombic
  5. catacombs
  6. catacorner
  7. catacorolla
  8. catacosmesis
  9. catacoustic
  10. catacoustics
  11. catacrotic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catacorner (page history and authors); kitty-corner (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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