shadowy corner
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3.7
- noun
:
rincón sombrío
- Amsterdam leads Johnny off to a shadowy corner of the room where they can talk privately.
- the shadowy corner of the room
Examples
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The barn was bigger than Savich liked; there was a big hayloft, and too many shadowy corners for this sort of operation.
Fiction book (2002) -
I was staring at the shadowy corner of the room where Dad's cabinet was.
Fiction book (1997) -
Who is quietly settling into a shadowy corner of the garage, watching Drew?
Fiction book (1991) -
"We have it piped," she said, and went to a door in the farthest shadowy corner.
Fiction book (1995) -
Lionette has left Masunaka and Eve in the shadowy corner of the club and made her way to the bar.
Fiction book (1997) -
He glanced at the guards watching him from their shadowy corner of the room.
Fiction book (2002) -
The lawn mower was in a shadowy corner with an aluminum ladder resting on it.
Fiction book (1997) -
No music, unless someone wanted to sit at the synthesizer that lay dusty and rarely touched in the farthest, most shadowy corner of the room.
Fiction book (2001) -
The bartender had shed his skin, and off in the shadowy corners, some of the guests were reverting to their true shapes.
Fiction book (2001) -
In the shadowy corner of the library, she discovered a hidden door behind a stack of old books.
Synonyms
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4.2
A quiet remote part of a country or place
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2.5
A secret place where nobody can find a person or thing
40
3.0
A small sheltered corner where you can sit or read
A place where someone hides to wait secretly, often to do something bad
Antonyms
How Dark
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3.7
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1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a place that is dimly lit or secluded' is directly and literally derived from combining 'shadowy' (dimly lit or obscured) with 'corner' (a nook or angle). This straightforward adjective + noun composition is cross-linguistically common and follows regular English compounding patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The phrase shadowy corner comes from the image of a dark part of a room where shadowy means full of shadow and corner is a spot at the room's edge where someone can hide. So shadowy corner now means a place that is 'dimly lit' or 'out of view'.