| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| cater-cornered |
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| SYLLABICATION: | cat·er-cor·nered |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k t  r-kôr nrd, kt - |
| VARIANT FORMS: | also cat·er-cor·ner (-nr) or cat·ty-cor·nered or cat·ty-cor·ner (kt-) or kit·ty-cor·nered or kit·ty-cor·ner (k t-) |
| ADJECTIVE: | Diagonal. | | ADVERB: | In a diagonal position. | | ETYMOLOGY: | From obsolete cater, four at dice, from Middle English, from Old French catre, four, from Latin quattuor. See kwetwer- in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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