corridor
- Top 5000
Sense 1
- noun
- B2
A long narrow space inside a building, with doors along its sides, that people walk through to get from one room to another.
The classroom you want is at the end of the corridor.
Students are not allowed to run in the school corridors.
We waited on plastic chairs in the corridor outside the surgery.
Our room was down a long corridor with numbered doors.
Common collocations: a long corridor · down the corridor · at the end of the corridor · a narrow corridor · hospital corridor
Part of: Rooms, Buildings and places
Sense 2 · less common
- noun
- C1
A long narrow strip of land, water or air kept for travelling or moving between two places.
Most freight travels along the busy corridor between the two ports.
Planners want a green corridor linking the parks across the whole city.
Pilots must stay inside the air corridor above the mountains.
Common collocations: air corridor · wildlife corridor · transport corridor · green corridor · a narrow corridor of land
Part of: Directions, Means of transport, Landscape