variants
also catty-corner
or catercorner
or kitty-cornered
or catty-cornered
or catercornered
as in diagonally
in a line or direction running from corner to corner
walked kitty-corner across the quadrangle to the registration booth
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Recent Examples of kitty-corner
The store, which is kitty-corner to an Albertsons supermarket, was built by Safeway in 1950 with a Marina-style rounded roof.
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Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025
The low-income apartments will sit kitty-corner to the Townes at Kennedy-King, a recent townhome development by Onyx+East along the growing 22nd Street corridor.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
Angela Palermo, Idaho Statesman, 23 Aug. 2025
The low-income apartments will sit kitty-corner to the Townes at Kennedy-King, a recent townhome development by Onyx+East along the growing 22nd Street corridor.
—Jordan Smith, IndyStar, 18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitty-corner
Adverb
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Gilbert and her volunteer group had already planted dozens of trees in just a couple of hours, moving diagonally across a open, grassy field surrounded by ponderosa pines.—
John Leos,
AZCentral.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Epson specs the lens as suitable for 16:9 screens ranging from 80 inches diagonally (at less than an inch from the screen) to 150 inches (from 9.9 inches away).—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Aug. 2025
Adverb
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The bowl is big, almost as wide across as a soccer ball.—
Bud Kennedy,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Sep. 2025
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Average ratings have dropped across almost all areas covered in the report.—
Laura Begley Bloom,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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