corridors

Noun

corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
   • 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.1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC
2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
   • In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug ^([sic]) [Korridorzüge] of the O.B.B. which run through from Innsbruck to Reutte via the Mittenwald line, but which are "sealed" between Scharnitz through Garmisch-Partenkirchen as far as Ehrwald, carrying passengers only from Austria to...1951 November, Brian Reed, “An Austro-German "Corridor" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 778
3. (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