corridor

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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 [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
    Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

Derived terms

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

Pronunciation

Noun

corridor m (plural corridors)

  1. corridor, passage

Descendants

  • → Turkish: koridor

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