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catercorners

catercorners is the alternative form of cater-corner.

Meaning of cater-corner

Adverb

cater-corner (not comparable)

  1. (Canada, US) Diagonally across from.
    • Altman's is sited catercorner to the ESB.

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Questions about catercorners

What is catercorners the alternative form of?
Catercorners is the alternative form of cater-corner.

Words near catercorners in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: catercorners (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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