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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. 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. 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. 3

    historicalThe covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

  4. 4

    Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

  5. 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
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).