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corridor definition

cor·ri·dor (kôr′ə dər, kär′-; -dôr′)

noun

  1. a long passageway or hall, esp. one onto which several rooms open
  2. a strip of land, or an airspace, forming a passageway through foreign-held land, as from a country to its seaport

Etymology: Fr < It corridore, a gallery, corridor, runner < correre, to run < L currere: see current

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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