corridor
Meaning
- A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
- A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
- (historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
- Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
- The land near an important road, river, railway line.
Synonyms
walk-through
narrow passage between two objects
sanitary lane
passage-way
open passage
ante-room
Translations
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/
Etymology
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
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