# corridor

Pronunciation: US say "KAWR-uh-dor" /ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/; UK say "KO-ri-dor" /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/

## Noun

1. A narrow hall or passage inside a building or train car, with rooms or compartments opening off it.
   - Simple: A long, narrow space inside a building, with rooms along the sides.
   - _She hurried down the corridor to reach the meeting room on time._
   - _Each compartment opened onto the corridor that ran the length of the sleeping car._
2. A restricted strip of land set aside to allow passage between two separated places.
   - Simple: A narrow strip of land that lets people or goods travel between two places.
   - _Aid groups negotiated a corridor so supplies could reach the besieged town._
   - _The treaty granted the landlocked nation a corridor to the sea._
3. The land lying alongside an important road, river, or railway line.
   - Simple: The strip of land that runs alongside an important road, river, or railway.
   - _Developers eyed the rail corridor for new housing projects._
   - _Wildlife struggles to cross the busy corridor that follows the river._
4. A band of airspace set aside for the passage of aircraft.
   - Simple: A special path through the sky that aircraft are allowed to fly along.
   - _Controllers guided each aircraft into the assigned corridor over the mountains._
   - _The closed corridor forced airlines to reroute hundreds of flights._

## Noun

5. A covered way running around the whole outer line of a place's fortifications. *(rare)*
   - Simple: A covered path that ran all the way around the outer walls of a fort.
   - _Defenders hurried around the corridor to reinforce the threatened bastion._
   - _The engineers laid out the corridor to ring the entire fortress._

## Origin

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore meaning "long passage," which comes from correre, "to run."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/corridor (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).