corner

corner

noun

Definition of CORNER

1

a difficult, puzzling, or embarrassing situation from which there is no easy escape <the writers have gotten themselves into a corner on that TV show>

Synonyms bind, box, catch-22, corner, dilemma, fix, hole, impasse, jackpot [chiefly West], jam, mire, pickle, quagmire, rabbit hole, rattrap, spot, sticky wicket, swamp

Related Words difficulty, node; hot water, soup; pinch, plight, quandary, scrape, trouble; deadlock, halt, logjam, stalemate, standstill; clutch, crisis, crossroad, emergency, exigency, juncture, strait

2

a place where roads meet <we'll meet at the corner tomorrow>

Synonyms carrefour, corner, crossing, crossway(s), intersection, junction

Related Words cloverleaf, interchange, overpass, underpass; circle, rotary, roundabout [British], traffic circle

3

a point in a chain of events at which an important change (as in one's fortunes) occurs <the president believes that we have turned a corner in the war on drugs>

Synonyms climacteric, climax, corner, landmark, milepost, milestone, watershed

Related Words break, capper, clincher, crusher, highlight, topper; conversion, metamorphosis, transfiguration, transformation, turnabout, turnaround; boiling point, breaking point, clutch, conjuncture, crisis, crossroad(s), crunch, crunch time, Dunkirk, emergency, exigency, extremity, flash point, head, juncture, zero hour