corridor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   noun

   The land near an important road, river, railway line.

   Main Street corridor

4. 4
   noun

   an enclosed passageway

5. 5
   noun

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

6. 6
   noun

   Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

Etymology

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