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catercornered

catercornered is the alternative form of cater-corner.

Meaning of cater-corner

Adjective

cater-corner (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US) At a diagonal to another; of four corners, those diagonal to another.
    • 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. (UK, dialectal, obsolete) Uneven, not square, as mislaid stones or people with a limping gait.

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Questions about catercornered

What is catercornered the alternative form of?
Catercornered is the alternative form of cater-corner.

Words near catercornered in the dictionary

  1. cater-waiter
  2. cater-waiters
  3. cateran
  4. caterans
  5. catercorner
  6. catercornered
  7. catercorners
  8. catered
  9. caterer
  10. caterers
  11. caterership

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catercornered (page history and authors); cater-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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