The Empire State Building and the old Altman's Department store are catercorner, at Fifth Avenue and East 34th Street, with the ESB at the southwest, and Altman's at the northeast.
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Cater-corner
//ˈkatəˌkɔːnə//
Synonyms for "cater-corner" (3 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Adverb(1 words)
Related words (1)
Adjective(1 words)
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Translations
12 translations across 9 languages.
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 斜對面 /斜对面 adv (diagonally across)
Danish
1 entries- skråt overfor adv (diagonally across)
Finnish
1 entries- kulmittain vastapäätä adv (diagonally across)
German
1 entries- schräg gegenüber adv (diagonally across)
Greek
2 entries- διαγωνίως adv (diagonally across)
- διαγώνια adv (diagonally across)
Japanese
1 entries- 斜め adv (diagonally across)
Polish
2 entries- na skos adv (diagonally across)
- ukośnie adv (diagonally across)
Russian
2 entries- на́искось adv (diagonally across)
- наискосо́к adv (diagonally across)
Spanish
1 entries- en contraesquina adv (diagonally across)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
From my living room, I trained my binoculars on the redbrick monstrosity catercorner from me.
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Altman's is sited catercorner to the ESB.
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