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streetcorner

streetcorner is the alternative form of street corner.

Meaning of street corner

Noun

street corner (plural street corners)

  1. The corner of a street, usually where two streets meet at an intersection.

Adjective

streetcorner (not comparable)

  1. Acting or appearing on the street corner
    • December 5 2016, Andrew Barbano writing in Sparks Tribune, The Barbwire Billion-Dollar Cure for What Ails Us
      The ghost of Al Davis has played Nevada like a streetcorner hooker, schmoozing, seducing, then stealing the working girl's purse.
    • a streetcorner preacher

Forms of streetcorner

pluralstreetcorners

Origin of streetcorner

From street + corner.

Questions about streetcorner

What does streetcorner mean?
Streetcorner means acting or appearing on the street corner.
What is streetcorner the alternative form of?
Streetcorner is the alternative form of street corner.
What part of speech is streetcorner?
Streetcorner is an adjective.

Words near streetcorner in the dictionary

  1. streetcar
  2. streetcare
  3. streetcars
  4. streetcleaner
  5. streetcleaners
  6. streetcorner
  7. streetcorners
  8. streete
  9. streeted
  10. Streeter
  11. streeteries

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: streetcorner (page history and authors); street 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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