Pronunciation 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 5661828 ↗:
- 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.
- 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.
- French: couloir, corridor
- German: Korridor, Gang, Durchgang, Flur, Diele
- Italian: corridoio
- Portuguese: corredor
- Russian: коридо́р
- Spanish: pasillo, corredor
- French: couloir aérien
- German: Korridor
- Italian: corridoio aereo
- Portuguese: corredor aéreo
- Russian: коридо́р
- Spanish: pasillo, corredor
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