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corridor Definition

cor·ri·dor (kôr′ə dər, kär′-; --dôr′)

noun

  1. a long passageway or hall, esp. one onto which several rooms open
  2. 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

n.

passage, hallway, passageway; see hall 2.

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.