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The definition of a corridor is a long hall onto which several rooms open, or a strip of land or airspace through foreign-held territory, or a heavily populated strip of land or railroad access between two urban areas.

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An example of a corridor is a hotel hallway.
An example of a corridor is a passageway to the sea from a land-locked country.
An example of a corridor is the northeast rail corridor which connects New Jersey and New York.

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noun

a long passageway or hall, esp. one onto which several rooms open
a strip of land, or an airspace, forming a passageway through foreign-held land, as from a country to its seaport

Origin: Fr < It corridore, a gallery, corridor, runner < correre, to run < L currere: see current

See corridor in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
a. A tract of land forming a passageway, such as one that allows an inland country access to the sea through another country.
b. A restricted tract of land for the passage of trains.
c. Restricted airspace for the passage of aircraft.
d. The restricted path followed by a spacecraft on a particular mission.
A thickly populated strip of land connecting two or more urban areas: the Boston-Washington corridor.

Origin:

Origin: French

Origin: , from Italian corridore

Origin: , from correre, to run

Origin: , from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots

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