Usually means: Diagonally opposite from each other.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word catty-cornered:

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  1. catty-cornered: Merriam-Webster
  2. catty-cornered: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. catty-cornered: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. catty-cornered, catty-cornered: Collins English Dictionary
  5. catty-cornered: Vocabulary.com
  6. catty-cornered: Wiktionary
  7. catty-cornered: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. catty-cornered: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. catty-cornered: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. catty-cornered: Dictionary.com
  11. catty-cornered: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Catty-Cornered: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. catty-cornered: Rhymezone
  14. CATTY-CORNERED: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  15. catty-cornered: FreeDictionary.org
  16. catty-cornered: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. catty-cornered: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. catty-cornered: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (Catty-cornered)

adverb:  (US, Canada) Alternative form of catty-corner: cater-corner. [(US, Canada) Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from.]
adjective:  (US, Canada) Alternative form of catty-corner: catercorner. [(US, Canada) Synonym of cater-corner: diagonally across from one another.]

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