corridornoun [ C ]
uk/ˈkɒr.ɪ.dɔːr/us/ˈkɔːr.ə.dɚ/corridor noun [ C ] (PASSAGE)
B2 a long passage in a building or train, especially with rooms on either side:
Her office is at the end of the corridor.
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- He could hear the clack of high heels walking past in the corridor.
- There's a connecting corridor between the buildings.
- We crept slowly along the darkened corridor.
- Her office is down the corridor on the right.
- The children funnelled along the corridor into the school hall.
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Parts of buildings: passages & entrance areas
- arcade
- archway
- concourse
- desk
- entryway
- foyer
- gangway!
- gateway
- hall
- hallway
- lobby
- marquee
- passage
- patio
- porch
- portico
- reception
- terrace
- vestibule
corridor noun [ C ] (LAND)
a long piece of one country's land that goes through another country:
the Polish corridor
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Towns & regions: parts of countries
- Breton
- canton
- Catalan
- city state
- co-
- county
- county borough
- countywide
- east
- East Ender
- level
- north
- northeast
- northerner
- provincial
- region
- regionalism
- reservation
- southerner
- southwest
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Idiom(s)
the corridors of power