corridor
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/, /-də/
- (General American) enPR: kôrʹədôr', IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/; enPR: kôrʹədər', IPA(key): /ˈkɔɹədɚ/
Audio (General American): (file) - Hyphenation: cor‧ri‧dor
Noun
[edit]corridor (plural corridors)
- 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.
- 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.
- (military, 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
- Main Street corridor
Derived terms
[edit]- air corridor
- boom corridor
- corridor care
- corridor discussion
- corridor disease
- corridor of uncertainty
- corridor shooter
- corridors of power
- corridor train
- corridor warrior
- Danubian corridor
- ghost corridor
- green corridor
- humanitarian corridor
- M62 corridor
- Mormon corridor
- non-corridor, noncorridor
- Northeast Corridor
- Suwalki corridor
- wildlife corridor
Translations
[edit]narrow hall or passage
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tract of land
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airspace
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Italian corridore.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]corridor m (plural corridors)
Descendants
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “corridor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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