cornerman
English
noun
Definitions
- (boxing) A coach, trainer or other assistant who attends to a boxer between rounds.
- (basketball) A player who can play both the small forward and power forward positions.
- (US) A policeman assigned to an intersection to direct the traffic.
Etymology
Suffix from English corner.
Origin
English
corner
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- corner English
- cornerback English
- cornercap English
- cornerless English
- cornerlike English
- cornerpiece English
- cornersome English
- cornerstone English
- cornerways English
- cornerwise English
- streetcorner English
- tricorner English
- corner Italian
- corner French
- córner Spanish, Castilian
- コーナー Japanese
- corner Middle English
- korner Serbo-Croatian
- córner Catalan, Valencian
- korner Cebuano
- cornel Welsh
- kona Swahili
- 코너 Korean
- ikhona Zulu
- ikona Xhosa
- kona Tok Pisin
- likhona Swati