corridor

noun
/ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/UK/ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/US/ˈkɑɹəˌdɔɹ/

Etymology

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

  1. derived from corridore — “long passage
  2. borrowed from corridor

Definitions

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

    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.
    • Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.
    • My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?
  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.

  4. + 2 more definitions
    1. Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

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

      • Main Street corridor
      • Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at corridor. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01corridor02carriage03four-wheeled04four05dots06shotgun07corridors

A definitional loop anchored at corridor. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at corridor

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA