noun

corridor

KO-rih-daw

noun

A long narrow passage inside a building, with rooms opening off it.

"Her office is at the end of the corridor."

"Students filled the corridor between classes."

A strip of land, airspace, or territory that allows passage between two places.

"Aid trucks used a humanitarian corridor to reach the city."

How to Use Corridor

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA hallway, or more broadly a narrow strip of land or air used to pass through.

Common pairings

down the corridor humanitarian corridor flight corridor

corridors plural

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Her office is at the end of the _____.

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore, "long passage," from correre, "to run".