Other forms: corridors
A corridor is the long narrow passage inside a building that all the rooms open off. Hard floor, strip light, doors down both sides, and a heavy fire door halfway along that you have to push with your shoulder.
Trains have them too — the corridor runs the length of the carriage, past the compartments and the window you are not allowed to lean out of. Then the word goes outdoors and gets big: a shipping corridor, an air corridor, a strip of land left open so that deer can cross between two woods. In British English corridor is the ordinary word for the passage in a school or a hospital; American English says hallway or hall. And there is one fixed phrase worth carrying away: the corridors of power, meaning the offices and passages where a country is really run.
1nouncorridorThe long passage inside a building, with rooms opening off it on either side.~33%
“She waited in the corridor outside the head teacher's office.”
2nounrailThe passage running along the side of a railway carriage.~2%
“Trains on that line have a corridor running the length of the carriage.”
3nounnarrowA long narrow strip of land, sea or air kept open so that traffic can move through it.~65%
“A corridor of open ground was left for the deer to cross.”
Shares are an estimate: a language model read 188 sentences found in the wild and placed 179 of them on a sense (9 were unclear) — a count of our sample, not a measurement of English.
Also accepted in games: hallway, hall
CORRI-dor → CARRY
A boy is carrying a tall stack of plates past one shut door, then another, then another, and the line of doors runs on further than he can see.
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Behind corridor is the Italian corridore, a long passage, and behind that correre — to run. A corridor is a running-place. That is why it is long and empty and has no purpose except getting you to the other end of it.
Italian
corridore — long passage
French
corridor
English, today
corridor
Built from
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA