Definitions for corridor

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corridor cor·ri·dor

Spelling: [kawr-i-der, -dawr, kor-]

IPA: /ˈkɔr ɪ dər, -ˌdɔr, ˈkɒr-/

Corridor is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in corridor (cdioorrr).

Definitions for corridor

noun

1. a gallery or passage connecting parts of a building; hallway.
2. a passage into which several rooms or apartments open.
3. a passageway in a passenger ship or railroad car permitting access to separate cabins or compartments.
4. a narrow tract of land forming a passageway, as one connecting two major cities or one belonging to an inland country and affording an outlet to the sea:
5. a usually densely populated region characterized by one or more well-traveled routes used by railroad, airline, or other carriers:
6. Aeronautics. a restricted path along which an aircraft must travel to avoid hostile action, other air traffic, etc.
7. Aerospace. a carefully calculated path through the atmosphere along which a space vehicle must travel after launch or during reentry in order to attain a desired orbit, to avoid severe acceleration and deceleration, or to minimize aerodynamic heating.

Origin of corridor

1585-95; Middle French Upper Italian corridore (Tuscan corridoio), equivalent to corr(ere) to run (Latin currere) + -idore Latin -i-tōrium; see -i-,

Examples for corridor

The stenographer was to take his seat in this corridor, just outside one of the windows.

The next moment he had opened the door and stepped out into the corridor.

He backed away and walked down the corridor as a file of terrified patients pressed themselves against the walls.

The shades on the corridor windows here will be up, and Garson will see them taken in.

The rebels, defying airstrikes, are opening a corridor for reinforcements from Mother Russia.

His eyes were caught by a figure, the figure of Cassidy, advancing there in the corridor.

Controlling the corridor was essential to supporting deep operations elsewhere in eastern Afghanistan.

Again, he saw the detective walking forward, out there in the corridor.

Then the Malaysians asked to go to 34,000 feet, but were told that that corridor was not available.

The mother and sister of one defendant began screaming in the corridor outside the courtroom.