corridor

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

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

   Her office is at the end of the corridor on the second floor.

2. 2
   noun

   A narrow strip of land that allows passage between two places.

   The new railway runs through a busy transport corridor between the two cities.

Simplified etymology

Corridor comes from Italian corridore, based on Latin currere “to run,” and originally meant a “running place.” It first denoted a protected strip of land beside a military ditch; the familiar sense “long passage in a building” dates from the early 19th century.

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

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