Corridor Definition

kôrĭ-dər, -dôr, kŏr-
corridors
noun
A long passageway or hall, esp. one onto which several rooms open.
Webster's New World
A tract of land designated or used for a specific purpose, as for railroad lines, highways, or pipelines.
American Heritage
A route designated for a specific purpose.
A hazardous material corridor; a sea corridor for shipping; a flight corridor.
American Heritage
A strip of land, or an airspace, forming a passageway through foreign-held land, as from a country to its seaport.
Webster's New World
A route or tract of land used by migrating animals.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
idiom
corridors of power
  • The places or positions from which people in authority wield power.
American Heritage

Other Word Forms of Corridor

Noun

Singular:
corridor
Plural:
corridors

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Corridor

Origin of Corridor

  • French from Italian corridore from correre to run from Latin currere kers- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Borrowing from French corridor, from Italian corridore (= corridoio) long passage, from correre, to run.

    From Wiktionary

Corridor Sentence Examples

  • She continued faster, and followed the corridor as it curved to the left.

  • The warrior opened the door and strode into the corridor without waiting.

  • Hannah paused a few doors down along the wide, tall corridor with plush red rugs and gilded cornices.

  • She tucked the creature in her hands under one arm and left the small room for a long corridor in similar dark grey which glowed more brightly from indistinguishable light sources.

  • He stepped aside, out of the way to the corridor leading into the fortress.

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Words Starting With

CCOCOR

Words Ending With

RORDOR

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