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corridor.

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

8 characters3 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/Received-Pronunciation/-də/Received-Pronunciation/ˈkɔɹɪdoː/British, Southern, Standard/-də/British, Southern, Standard
  1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.

  2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.

  3. The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.

    historical · rare
  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
Where this word comes from

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.