corridor
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
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.
- (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
- Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
Derived terms
Translations
narrow hall or passage
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tract of land
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airspace
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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Italian corridore.
Pronunciation
Noun
corridor m (plural corridors)
Further reading
- “corridor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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