A corridor is a long passage in a building, with doors and rooms on one or both sides.
2. countable noun
A corridor is a strip of land that connects one country to another or gives it a route to thesea through another country.
The republic lay in a narrow corridor of disputed land.
More Synonyms of corridor
corridor in British English
(ˈkɒrɪˌdɔː)
noun
1.
a hallway or passage connecting parts of a building
2.
a strip of land or airspace along the route of a road or river
the M1 corridor
3.
a strip of land or airspace that affords access, either from a landlocked country to the sea (such as the Polish corridor, 1919-39, which divided Germany) or from a state to an exclave (such as the Berlin corridor, 1945–90, which passed through the former East Germany)
4.
a passageway connecting the compartments of a railway coach
5. corridors of power
6.
a flight path that affords safe access for intruding aircraft
7.
the path that a spacecraft must follow when re-entering the atmosphere, above which lift is insufficient and below which heating effects are excessive
Word origin
C16: from Old French, from Old Italian corridore, literally: place for running, from correre to run, from Latin currere
corridor in American English
(ˈkɔrədər; ˈkɑrədər; ˈkɔrəˌdɔr; ˈkɑrəˌdɔr)
noun
1.
a long passageway or hall, esp. one onto which several rooms open
2.
a strip of land, or an airspace, forming a passageway through foreign-held land,as from a country to its seaport
Word origin
Fr < It corridore, a gallery, corridor, runner < correre, to run < L currere: see current
corridor in Hospitality
(kɔrɪdər)
Word forms: (regular plural) corridors
noun
(Hospitality (hotel): Hotel facilities)
A corridor is a long passage in a building, with doors and rooms on one or both sides.
There are doors on both sides of the corridor.
I ran down the corridor towards the elevator.
The restaurant is at the end of the corridor on the right.
Two patients died in one hospital waiting in its corridors, one from a heart attack and the other from an aneurysm.
The Sun (2017)
He's loyal, knows the corridors of power and is fiercely territorial.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Aid organisations said that the request was'dangerous' and called for safe corridors to be established to allow more than a million civilians to escape.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The first troops to enter the building encountered corridors filled with dead and wounded pupils.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Walk the corridors of power and get a real sense of the atmosphere within this unique building.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The starving moose will be lured to these safe corridors by deposits of food.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The set evokes a long angled corridor full of secret doors.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
We work at the same place and he found me in tears in the corridor one day.
The Sun (2016)
You go down and down in lifts and along corridors.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It could have guaranteed safe corridors for refugees and emergency aid.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Inside there was a long dark corridor.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
We are in one of the corridors.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
We pass each other endlessly in lifts and in corridors.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He turned into the darkness of the long corridor.
Zindell, David The Broken God (1993)
There was no one in the corridor.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It then uses special corridors and lifts to move around.
The Sun (2010)
Typically, long corridors give access to a room beyond another room.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When they did, intense flapping ensued in the corridors of power.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If coastal paths are eroded, new ones will be built to maintain the access corridor.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
I offered only a narrow flight corridor that was far from any sensitive areas.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
We were working on a project for elephant corridors: acquiring land to join up fragments of wild habitat.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is the biggest corruption scandal since independence and has sent shockwaves through the nation's corridors of power.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
For the first time we heard sounds of gunfire as we made our way to the north of the Serb land corridor.
Stewart, Bob (Lt-Col) Broken Lives (1993)
After its passage along corridors and down flights of stairs, it seemed far too faint to rouse a heavily sleeping man.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Experts said that a land corridor would need to be protected by hundreds, if not thousands, of troops.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
When this is completed and all 88 recognised corridors are safe, the elephants will be all right for theforeseeable future.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
In this sort of situation, conservationists will normally build wildlife corridors across inhospitable land, making it easier for breeding couples to meet.
The Sun (2014)
Two more of the advisers' panel also have links to the vast and sprawling body, which craves access to the corridors of power.
The Sun (2012)
In other languages
corridor
British English: corridor /ˈkɒrɪˌdɔː/ NOUN
A corridor is a long passage in a building or train, with rooms on one or both sides.
There were doors on both sides of the corridor.
American English: corridor
Arabic: مـَمَرّ
Brazilian Portuguese: corredor
Chinese: 走廊
Croatian: hodnik
Czech: chodba
Danish: korridor
Dutch: gang
European Spanish: pasillo corredor
Finnish: käytävä
French: couloir
German: Korridor
Greek: διάδρομος
Italian: corridoio
Japanese: 廊下
Korean: 복도
Norwegian: korridor
Polish: korytarz
European Portuguese: corredor
Romanian: coridor
Russian: коридор
Latin American Spanish: corredor pasillo
Swedish: korridor
Thai: ทางเดินยาว
Turkish: koridor
Ukrainian: коридор
Vietnamese: hành lang
Chinese translation of 'corridor'
corridor
(ˈkɔrɪdɔːʳ)
n(c)
(in house, building) 走廊 (zǒuláng) (条(條), tiáo)
(on train) 车(車)厢(廂)过(過)道 (chēxiāng guòdào) (个(個), gè)
(noun)
Definition
a passage in a building or a train
He raced down the corridor towards the exit.
Synonyms
passage
The toilets are up the stairs and along the passage to your right.
alley
The citadel is reached through a series of narrow alleys.
aisle
the frozen food aisle
hallway
A central hallway leads into the dining and living areas.
passageway
an underground passageway that connects the two buildings
Additional synonyms
in the sense of aisle
Definition
a passageway separating seating areas in a church, theatre, or cinema, or separating rows of shelves in a supermarket
the frozen food aisle
Synonyms
passageway,
path,
lane,
passage,
corridor,
alley,
gangway
in the sense of alley
Definition
a narrow passage between or behind buildings
The citadel is reached through a series of narrow alleys.
Synonyms
passage,
walk,
lane,
pathway,
alleyway,
passageway,
backstreet
in the sense of hallway
Definition
an entrance area
A central hallway leads into the dining and living areas.