corridor
Pronunciation: /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/
The English word “corridor” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
- A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
- The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
- Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
- The land near an important road, river, railway line.
Etymology
Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).
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