Definition of Corridor

1. Noun. An enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it.

Specialized synonyms: Gallery, Hall, Hallway
Generic synonyms: Passageway

Definition of Corridor

1. n. A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.

Definition of Corridor

1. Noun. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it. ¹

2. Noun. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places. ¹

3. Noun. Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Corridor

1. a narrow hallway [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Corridor

correspondents
corresponding
corresponding author
corresponding authors
correspondingly
correspondings
corresponds
corresponsive
corresponsively
correus debendi
correxion
correxonuclease
corrida
corridas
corrido
corridor (current term)
corridor disease
corridor of uncertainty
corridor warrior
corridor warriors
corridorless
corridorlike
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corrie
corries
corrigenda
corrigendum
corrigent
corrigibilities

Literary usage of Corridor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Gentleman's House: Or, How to Plan English Residences, from the by Robert Kerr (1865)
"A corridor is a wide and stately PASSAGE : a wider and more stately corridor is a GALLERY. In respect of dimensions, we may consider any width from 6 to 12 ..."

2. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens (1848)
"We selected the front corridor as our dwelling, turned turkey and fowls loose in the ... At one end of the corridor Juan built a kitchen, which operation ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"Do you mean the corridor where the room of her royal highness opened ? ... Were the suite Kin" on straw in that corridor ? I saw nobody He, because every ..."

4. The Mastaba of Ptahhetep and Akhethetep at Saqqareh by Norman de Garis Davies, Francis Llewellyn Griffith (1901)
"THE SCENES AND INSCRIPTIONS. corridor prove ; aud we are lar from the series ... One-can imagine the funeral procession passing through the corridor on the ..."

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