Street Corner

Definition: Street Corner

Street Corner

Noun

1. The intersection of two streets; "standing on the corner watching all the girls go by".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Street Corner

Crosswords: Street Corner

Street Corner (1953)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Street Corner Society: The Social Structure of an Italian Slum (reference)

• Street Corner Conservative: Patrick J. Buchanan and Hist Times (reference)

• Pheromone on the Street Corner (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Street Corner Serenade: The Greatest Doo Wop of the '50s and '60s (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Street corner, with church on hill in background, Austin, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Street corner merchant, Havana, Cuba. Credit: Library of Congress.

Farmers on street corner, Saturday afternoon. Williston, North Dakota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Drinking fountain on street corner, Litchfield, Minnesota. Credit: Library of Congress.

Soldiers on street corner in Starke, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dillon, Montana. Street corner. Dillon is the trading center for a prosperous cattle and sheep country. Credit: Library of Congress.

Los Angeles, California. Man reading newspaper on street corner. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hollywood, California. Street corner. Credit: Library of Congress.

Street corner, Brockton, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Canadian scenes. City street corner and buildings. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Travel

Israel

Diet drinks are becoming very popular as well as a variety of wonderful fresh made fruit-based shakes and popular beverages from the U.S. Coffee bars and pastry shops are on almost every street corner, and many small kiosks offer regional specialties such as falafel and shwarma sandwiches. (references)

Women

Cuba

Police obtained early success in their efforts by stationing officers on nearly every major street corner where tourists were present. (references)

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Expression using "street corner": turn a street corner. Additional references.

Estonian

tänavanurgal. (various references)

Finnish

kadunkulma. (various references)

Indonesian

pojokan. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

街�' , �"��' , 曲がり�' (road turn), 曲がりかど (road turn). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まがりかど (a corner, bend in the road, road turn, turning point), まちかど. (various references)

Pig Latin

eetstray ornercay

Portuguese

esquina (angle, bight, cant, coign, coin, corner, elbow, quoin). (various references)

Spanish

la esquina. (various references)

Swedish

gathörn (steetcorner). (various references)

Turkish

köşeyi dönmek (shake the pagoda tree, turn a street corner, turn the corner). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: entrecotes.

-3 letters: contester, entrecote, recentest, retorters, trecentos.

-4 letters: enterers, erecters, erectors, recenter, reenters, reerects, rescreen, resetter, resorter, restorer, retorter, retrorse, rottener, screener, secreter, secretor, sorcerer, terreens, terrenes, torrents, trecento.

-5 letters: cenotes, centers, centres, contest, corners, cornets, cotters, encores, enterer, entrees, erecter, erector, estrone, necrose, netters, rectors, reenter, reerect, renters, rescore, restore, retenes, retorts, rosette.

+3 letters: intercorrelates.

+4 letters: retroreflections.