corridor

UK /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/ US /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/
noun 5

Definitions

noun

1

A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.

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.

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.

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

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

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