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Webster 1913 Edition
Corridor
Cor′ri-dor
(k?r′r?-d?r or -d?r)
, Noun.
[F., fr. Itt.
corridpore
, or Sp. corredor
; prop., a runner, hence, a running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere
to run. See Course
.] 1.
(Arch.)
A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
2.
(Fort.)
The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
[R.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Corridor
CORRIDOR
,Noun.
1.
In architecture, a gallery or long aisle round a building, leading to several chambers at a distance from each other.2.
In fortification, the covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.Definition 2025
corridor
corridor
English
Noun
corridor (plural corridors)
- A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia).
- 1915, George A. Birmingham, “chapter I”, in Gossamer (Project Gutenberg; EBook #24394), London: Methuen & Co., published 8 January 2013 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 558189256:
- 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.
- 1931, Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps, chapter 1/1:
- Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
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- A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
- (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
- Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
Derived terms
- the corridors of power
- Polish Corridor
Translations
narrow hall or passage
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tract of land
airspace
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