corridor

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English

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (long passage) (= corridoio), from correre (to run).

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Noun

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corridor (plural corridors)

  1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
    • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
      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.
    • 1931, Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps, chapter 1/1:
      Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
  2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
    • 1951 November, Brian Reed, “An Austro-German "Corridor" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:
      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. (military, historical, rare) The 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

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French

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Italian corridore.

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Noun

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corridor m (plural corridors)

  1. corridor, passage

Descendants

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  • Iranian Persian: کریدور (koridor)
  • Turkish: koridor

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