corridor
corridor
Definition
cor·ri·dor (kôr′ə dər, kär′-; --dôr′)
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
Etymology: Fr < It corridore, a gallery, corridor, runner < correre, to run < L currere: see current
corridor
Synonyms
corridor
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- power: The effects of these changes are to leave many major landowners far removed from 'the corridors of power ' .
Converse of object
- stalk: But he does not yet seem to be stalking any town hall corridors.
- wander: Her ghost has been seen wandering corridors searching for him.
- roam: Guards roamed the castle corridors, heavily armed with an array of weapons.
- haunt: The second book in the series: ghosts from Hogwarts ' past return to haunt the school corridors.
- patrol: Children are involved in every aspect of the school - from designing facilities to patrolling corridors.
- enclose: More space is required for the purposes of assessing casualty prior to release, e.g. an enclosed corridor.
Adjective modifier
- m11: No, said the planning minister, Lord Rooker, find space for a further 18,000 somewhere along the M11 corridor.
- m1: The noisy M1 corridor passes through, with many of the slopes visually screened by planting.
- narrow: Next you squeeze your way stooping down a narrow corridor with a sloping wall that forces you to move sideways.
- drafty: Yet here he was, at midnight on the second day, standing in a drafty corridor.
- east-west: The period from 2021 to 2036 development is proposed toward the east-west A120 corridor around Braintree and Great Dunmow.
- gloomy: Dust motes swam alongside her down the gloomy corridor.
Modifies a noun
- composite: This 1935 built brake corridor composite is known as a period 3 LMS coach, and has also been in departmental use.
Noun used with modifier
- wildlife: Larger tracts, forming wildlife corridors, are of key importance.
- spine: There are only two rooms on the right hand side of the spine corridor, the first being the ' Signals Room ' .
- canal: The canal corridor up to its present terminus up against a dual carriageway runs through an industrail scene.
- river: The work has led to a new landscaped river corridor.
- transport: Finally, sites at nodes in public transport corridors were identified.
- waterway: Waterfront Projects This package of schemes aims to improve the waterway corridor running through Aire Valley.
Browse dictionary entries near corridor
- corrida
- corresponsive
- corresponding angles
- corresponding
- correspondent bank
- correspondent
- correspondency
- correspondence school
- correspondence
- correspond to
- corrie
- Corriedale
- Corrientes
- Corrigan, Gerald
- corrigendum
- corrigible
- corrival
- corroborant
- corroborate
- corroborating evidence
