corridor

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹɪˌdɔː(ɹ)/, /ˈkɒɹɪˌdə(ɹ)/
• (GenAM) enPR: kôrʹədôr', IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/

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corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, OCLC 5661828:

     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.

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps, chapter 1/1:

     Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.

2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
3. (military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
4. Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

• the corridors of power
• Polish Corridor

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ/

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corridor m (plural corridors)

1. passage, corridor

• “corridor” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).