corridor

noun

KAWR-uh-dor/ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/UKKO-ri-dor/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/

Pluralcorridors

5 meanings of corridor

1
nouncountable
A long, narrow space inside a building, with rooms along the sides.
Like the long path inside a house that takes you from one room to the next.
The students lined up in the corridor outside the classroom.
A long corridor connected the bedrooms to the kitchen.
Similarhallway, passage, passageway, hall
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2
nouncountable
A narrow strip of land that lets people or goods travel between two places.
Like a hallway, but made of land that joins two faraway places.
The two countries agreed to open a corridor for trucks to pass through.
A narrow corridor of land linked the port to the inland city.
Similarpassage, route
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3
nouncountable
The strip of land that runs alongside an important road, river, or railway.
Like the band of land that hugs both sides of a busy highway.
New factories opened all along the river corridor.
The corridor beside the new highway filled up with gas stations and motels.
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4
nouncountable
A special path through the sky that aircraft are allowed to fly along.
Like an invisible road in the sky that planes have to follow.
Air traffic controllers told the pilot to stay inside the corridor.
Planes must fly along a set corridor when crossing the border.
Similarairway, route, lane

Less common meaning

5
nounrarehistoricalcountable
A covered path that ran all the way around the outer walls of a fort.
Like a covered walkway that goes all the way around a castle's walls.
Soldiers moved along the corridor to reach the far side of the fort.
The corridor circled the castle behind its outer wall.
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Origin

It came from French corridor, which came from an Italian word for a long passage, based on a word meaning "to run."