corridor

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/, /-də/
• (General American) enPR: kôrʹədôr', IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/; enPR: kôrʹədər', IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹədɚ/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧ri‧dor

corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     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.

2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
   • 1951 November, Brian Reed, “An Austro-German "Corridor" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

     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.

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

   Main Street corridor

   Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ/

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corridor m (plural corridors)

1. corridor, passage

• → Turkish: koridor

• “corridor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.