corridor

cor·ri·dor

A hotel corridor.

noun

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.

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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corridor

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 of corridor

French from Italian corridore, a gallery, corridor, runner from correre, to run from Classical Latin currere: see current

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corridor

noun

A narrow hallway, passageway, or gallery, often with rooms or apartments opening onto it.
a. A tract of land designated or used for a specific purpose, as for railroad lines, highways, or pipelines.
b. A route designated for a specific purpose: a hazardous material corridor; a sea corridor for shipping; a flight corridor.
c. A route or tract of land used by migrating animals.
A thickly populated strip of land connecting two or more urban areas: people who live in the Boston-Washington corridor.

Origin of corridor

French from Italian corridore from correre to run from Latin currere ; see kers- in Indo-European roots.

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Noun

(plural corridors)

A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see).
A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.