Definition of CORRIDOR

corridor

Plural: corridors

Noun

  • A narrow passage or hallway, often connecting rooms.
  • an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
  • A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
  • A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
  • The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
  • Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
  • The land near an important road, river, railway line.

Examples

  • Main Street corridor
  • Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle
  • The opponent opened a long CORRIDOR on the board, perfect for a high-scoring word.

Origin / Etymology

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

Scrabble Score: 11

corridor: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
corridor: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
corridor: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

corridor: valid Words With Friends Word