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
Before that, going back to 1953, the Chicago Greyhound terminal was located at Clark and Randolph streets in the Loo p— at the current site of the Grant Thornton Tower, across the street from the Daley Center and the Thompson Center, and kitty-corner from the City Hall-County Building complex.
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Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The public forum sits kitty-corner from the Northbrook Metra station.
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Phil Rockrohr,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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.
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Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
18 Aug. 2025
Todd Feurer,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
The public forum sits kitty-corner from the Northbrook Metra station.
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Phil Rockrohr,
Chicago Tribune,
19 Feb. 2026
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.
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Jordan Smith,
IndyStar,
18 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for kitty-corner
Adverb
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The light passed through it and slashed diagonally across the hallway.
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Her bixie cut was tied back with a navy and white-dotted bandana folded diagonally and wrapped around her crown.
Adverb
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Later Friday afternoon, winds gusts of 30-plus mph will push across much of the northern Coast Range, Sierra and lower Sacramento Valley.
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Right across from Hollywood’s legendary Diplomat Beach Resort, an upscale 38-story condo tower overlooking the Intracoastal is on the rise.
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“Kitty-corner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kitty-corner. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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