corridor

Definition

A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car."
• "My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?"