corridor

corridor

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/, /-də/
• (General American) enPR: kôrʹədôr', IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/; enPR: kôrʹədər', IPA^(key): /ˈkɔɹədɚ/

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• Hyphenation: cor‧ri‧dor

Noun

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

   Main Street corridor

   Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

Derived terms

• air corridor
• boom corridor
• corridor discussion
• corridor disease
• corridor of uncertainty
• corridors of power
• corridor train
• corridor warrior
• ghost corridor
• green corridor
• humanitarian corridor
• M62 corridor
• Mormon corridor
• non-corridor, noncorridor
• Northeast Corridor
• Suwalki corridor
• wildlife corridor

 

Translations

narrow hall or passage

Afrikaans: gang Albanian: korridor m Arabic: رِوَاق‎ m (riwāq), دِهْلِيز‎ m (dihlīz), رَدْهَة‎ f (radha), مَمَرّ‎ m (mamarr) Egyptian Arabic: طرقى‎ f (ṭorqā) Hijazi Arabic: طرقة‎ f (ṭurga), سيب‎ m (sīb) Armenian: միջանցք (hy) (miǰancʿkʿ) Azerbaijani: dəhliz (az), koridor Belarusian: калідо́р m (kalidór) Bulgarian: коридо́р (bg) m (koridór) Burmese: စင်္ကြံ (my) (cangkram) Catalan: passadís (ca) m, corredor (ca) m Cherokee: ᎦᎵᏅᏛᎢ (galinvdvi) Chinese: Mandarin: 走廊 (zh) (zǒuláng), 甬道 (zh) (yǒngdào), 過道／过道 (zh) (guòdào), 廊道 (lángdào) Cornish: kuldremenva f Czech: chodba (cs) f Danish: korridor c, gang (da) c Dutch: corridor (nl) m, gang (nl) m, hal (nl) f Esperanto: koridoro Estonian: koridor Finnish: käytävä (fi) French: couloir (fr) m, corridor (fr) m Galician: pasadoiro m, corredor m, ástrago m, andámeo m, tránsito (gl) m Georgian: დერეფანი (derepani), კორიდორი (ḳoridori) German: Korridor (de) m, Gang (de) m, Durchgang (de) m, Flur (de) m, Diele (de) f Greek: διάδρομος (el) m (diádromos) Ancient: ἀνδρῶν m (andrôn) Gujarati: પડાળી m (paḍāḷī) Haitian Creole: koridò Hebrew: מִסְדְּרוֹן‎ (he) m (misd'rón), פְּרוֹזְדוֹר‎ (he) m (prozdór) Hindi: बरामदा (hi) m (barāmdā), गलियारा (hi) m (galiyārā) Hungarian: folyosó (hu) Indonesian: koridor (id) Irish: dorchla (ga) m, pasáiste m, halla m Italian: corridoio (it) m Japanese: 廊下 (ja) (ろうか, rōka), 回廊 (ja) (かいろう, kairō) Kazakh: дәліз (dälız), коридор (koridor) Khmer: របៀង (km) (rɔbiəng), ច្រករបៀង (crɑɑk rɔbiəng) Korean: 복도(複道) (ko) (bokdo), 회랑(回廊) (hoerang), 낭하(廊下) (nangha), 랑하(廊下) (rangha) (North Korea) Kurdish: Northern Kurdish: dehlîz (ku), dolan (ku) Kyrgyz: коридор (koridor), далис (ky) (dalis) Lao: ທາງຍ່າງ (thāng nyāng) Latin: andron m Latvian: koridors m Lithuanian: koridorius m Macedonian: коридо́р m (koridór), ходник m (hodnik), кулоа́р m (kuloár) Malagasy: lalantsara (mg) Malay: koridor Malayalam: ഇടനാഴി (ml) (iṭanāḻi) Maltese: kuritur m Maori: kauhanga, kauhanganui, kauwhanga, awarua Mongolian: Cyrillic: коридор (mn) (koridor), хонгил (mn) (xongil) Mongolian: ᠻᠣᠷᠢᠳᠣᠷ (khoridor), ᠬᠣᠩᠭᠢᠯ (qoŋɣil) Norwegian: Bokmål: korridor (no) m, gang (no) m Pashto: دهلېز‎ (ps) m (dahléz) Persian: راهرو‎ (fa) (râhro), کریدور‎ (fa) (koridor), دهلیز‎ (fa) (dehliz) Plautdietsch: Gank m Polish: korytarz (pl) m Portuguese: corredor (pt) m Romanian: culoar (ro) n, coridor (ro) n Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór) Scottish Gaelic: trannsa f Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: хо̏днӣк m, корѝдо̄р m, куло̀а̄р m Roman: hȍdnīk (sh) m, korìdōr (sh) m, kulòār (sh) m Slovak: chodba (sk) f Slovene: hodnik (sl) m Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: wjaža f Spanish: pasillo (es) m, corredor (es) m Swedish: korridor (sv) c, gång (sv) c Tagalog: koridor, pasilyo (tl) Tajik: долон (dolon), коридор (koridor), даҳлез (dahlez) Tamil: தாழ்வாரம் (ta) (tāḻvāram) Telugu: కారిడార్ (kāriḍār) Thai: ฉนวน (th) (chà-nǔuan) Turkish: koridor (tr), dehliz (tr) Turkmen: koridor Ukrainian: коридо́р (uk) m (korydór) Urdu: راہداری‎ f (rāhdārī) Uyghur: كارىدور‎ (karidor) Uzbek: yoʻlak (uz), koridor (uz) Vietnamese: hành lang (vi) Welsh: coridor m, tramwyfa f Xhosa: iranga Yakut: көрүдүөр (körüdüör) Yiddish: קאָרידאָר‎ m (koridor)

tract of land

Arabic: طَرِيق‎ (ar) m (ṭarīq) ضِيق‎ m (ḍīq) Catalan: corredor (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: koridor m Dutch: corridor (nl) Finnish: käytävä (fi) French: corridor (fr) m, couloir (fr) m German: Korridor (de) m, Trasse (de) f Greek: διάδρομος (el) m (diádromos) Hindi: गलियारा (hi) m (galiyārā) Indonesian: koridor (id) Japanese: 回廊地帯 (かいろうちたい, kairō chitai) Maori: awarua Persian: کریدور‎ (fa) (koridor) Polish: korytarz (pl) m Portuguese: corredor (pt) m Romanian: coridor (ro) n Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: корѝдо̄р m Roman: korìdōr (sh) m Swedish: korridor (sv) c Urdu: راہداری‎ f (rāhdārī) (example Kartarpur corridor)

airspace

Arabic: مَمَرّ‎ (mamarr) جَوِّيّ‎ (jawwiyy), مُـخـتَرَق‎ (ar) (muḵtaraq) جَوِّيّ‎ (jawwiyy) Bulgarian: коридо́р (bg) m (koridór) Catalan: passadís (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Czech: koridor m Dutch: luchtweg (nl), corridor (nl) Finnish: ilmakäytävä (fi) French: couloir aérien m German: Korridor (de) m Greek: αεροδιάδρομος (el) m (aerodiádromos) Italian: corridoio aereo m Japanese: 空中回廊 (くうちゅうかいろう, kūchū kairō) Persian: کریدور‎ (fa) (koridor) Polish: korytarz powietrzny m Portuguese: corredor aéreo m Romanian: coridor aerian n Russian: коридо́р (ru) m (koridór) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: корѝдо̄р m Roman: korìdōr (sh) m Spanish: pasillo (es) m, corredor (es) m Swedish: flygkorridor c, korridor (sv) c

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁi.dɔʁ/

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Noun

corridor m (plural corridors)

1. passage, corridor

Descendants

• → Turkish: koridor

Further reading

• “corridor”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.