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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•ri•dor /ˈkɔrɪdɚ, ˈkɑr-/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a passageway connecting rooms, apartments, etc.;
hallway. - Transporta thickly populated part of a country with major land and air transportation routes: Storms crippled air traffic along the Northeast corridor today.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cor•ri•dor (kôr′i dər, -dôr′, kor′-),USA pronunciation n. - a gallery or passage connecting parts of a building;
hallway. - a passage into which several rooms or apartments open.
- Transporta passageway in a passenger ship or railroad car permitting access to separate cabins or compartments.
- a narrow tract of land forming a passageway, as one connecting two major cities or one belonging to an inland country and affording an outlet to the sea:the Polish Corridor.
- Transporta usually densely populated region characterized by one or more well-traveled routes used by railroad, airline, or other carriers:The Northeast corridor extends from Washington, D.C., to Boston.
- Aerospace, Aeronauticsa restricted path along which an aircraft must travel to avoid hostile action, other air traffic, etc.
- Aerospacea carefully calculated path through the atmosphere along which a space vehicle must travel after launch or during reentry in order to attain a desired orbit, to avoid severe acceleration and deceleration, or to minimize aerodynamic heating.
- Latin -i-tōrium; see -i-, -tory2
- Latin currere) + -idore
- Upper Italian corridore (Tuscan corridoio), equivalent. to corr(ere) to run (
- Middle French
- 1585–95
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: corridor /ˈkɒrɪˌdɔː/ n - a hallway or passage connecting parts of a building
- a strip of land or airspace along the route of a road or river
- 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)
- a passageway connecting the compartments of a railway coach
- corridors of power ⇒ the higher echelons of government, the Civil Service, etc, considered as the location of power and influence
- a flight path that affords safe access for intruding aircraft
- the path that a spacecraft must follow when re-entering the atmosphere, above which lift is insufficient and below which heating effects are excessive
Etymology: 16th Century: from Old French, from Old Italian corridore, literally: place for running, from correre to run, from Latin currere |