Corridor

/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ · noun

Meaning

A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage..

Definitions by Sense

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
3. (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
4. Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
5. The land near an important road, river, railway line.

Example Sentences

There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.[…]Stewards, carrying cabin trunks, swarm in the corridors. Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place.

Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.

My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?

In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^([sic]) [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train.

Main Street corridor

Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

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