corridor
- noun
- /ˈkɔːrɪdər/
- She walked slowly down the long corridor lined with paintings.
- main corridor
- seated in the corridor
And then opposite at the end is another corridor with a square door.
- And then opposite at the end is another corridor with a square door.
- As we go to the front door now it's a corridor with steps that are coming up.
- He painted the entire corridor here of the Civil War murals.
- The bathroom was near the doors, the main doors after this little corridor.
- And I could see her bed and her bedroom door and down her corridor.
- So I get in the lift up to the top floor, go down the corridor, put the key card key in the door.
- This particular ward, the corridor ran NS.
- So I was walking across corridors crossing them.
- The boy shits his pants, runs down the corridor screaming my name.
Examples
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Our echoes die in that corridor now.
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There's a lift at the end of this corridor.
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So you walk down the corridor from the door down this way.
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As we go to the front door now it's a corridor with steps that are coming up.
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- Ah, straight down the corridor and turn left.
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And then opposite at the end is another corridor with a square door.
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So I get in the lift up to the top floor, go down the corridor, put the key card key in the door.
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It was right at the end of this corridor, right?
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Finally, I reached the far end of the corridor, where a lifeless phone hung.
Fiction book (1990) -
At the end of a very long, red carpeted corridor, I noticed this ball of white racing towards me, and I realized it was Princess Diana.
Synonyms
A long indoor passage with doors to rooms
A long narrow passage inside a building with doors to rooms
A long narrow space that connects rooms or parts of a building
A long narrow passage in a building used for walking and viewing
A less-used hallway at the back of a building that people use for private or service access
How Narrow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Corridor comes from an old root curr- meaning 'run', the same idea you see in the word course. So a corridor is a long, narrow passage you can 'run' down to move between rooms.