CORRIDOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does corridor mean? 

• CORRIDOR (noun)
  The noun CORRIDOR has 1 sense:

1. an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

  Familiarity information: CORRIDOR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORRIDOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("corridor" is a kind of...):

passageway (a passage between rooms or between buildings)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "corridor"):

gallery (a covered corridor (especially one extending along the wall of a building and supported with arches or columns))

hall; hallway (an interior passage or corridor onto which rooms open)

 Context examples 

I did so, and driven by the draught a coil of grey smoke swirled down the corridor, while the dry straw crackled and flamed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The door jerked open, and the man flung past Martin, with an angry countenance and went down the corridor, muttering curses and clenching his fists.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

"How do we design wildlife reserves? Do we make many small ones, or fewer big ones, or do we make corridors?"

(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)

I staggered to my feet and ran with her along the corridor and down a winding stair.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But if Mr. Phelps is correct in stating that there is no hiding-place either in the room or the corridors, then the person must have come from outside.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"What is all this?" demanded another voice peremptorily; and Mrs. Reed came along the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling stormily.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As I came along the corridor I saw Mr. Morris looking out of a window.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“On, camarades, on!” he cried; and, breaking fiercely past two men who threw themselves in his way, he sped down the broad corridor in the direction of the shouting.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poole stamped on the flags of the corridor.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It beckoned, gliding noiselessly before him down a corridor as dark and cold as any tomb.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)