corridor
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ˈkɒɹɪdɔː//
- United Kingdom//-də//
- United Kingdom//ˈkɔɹɪdoː//
A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
noun
- 1
A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.
Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?
- 2
A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^([sic]) [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train.
- 3
historicalThe covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
- 4
Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
- 5
The land near an important road, river, railway line.
Main Street corridor
Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle
Etymology
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
Forms
- plural
- corridors
corridor · A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
corroborate · To confirm or support something with additional evidence; to…corrupt · Willing to act dishonestly for personal gain; accepting…corrupted · Marked by immorality and perversion; depraved.