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CORRIDOR
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I. (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:
We passed along the low-roofed, devious corridors of the old-fashioned inn to the back of the house.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sand dunes, whether in deserts, on river bottoms or sea beds, rarely occur in isolation and instead usually appear in large groups, forming striking patterns known as dune fields or corridors.
(Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other, University of Cambridge)
Inside are burial chambers reached via a corridor or passageway.
(Analysis of the Palaeolithic diet finds that, in the prehistoric age, for thousands of years there were no social divisions in food consumption, University of Granada)
‘Our own colours, green and white.’ Sounds like racing. ‘Green open, white shut.’ That is clearly a signal. ‘Main stair, first corridor, seventh right, green baize.’ This is an assignation.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
All the broad and spacious corridors of his mind were closed and hermetically sealed.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
As I have said, there was a broad corridor there, which ran outside three empty bedrooms.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You were satisfied that he could not have been concealed in the room all the time, or in the corridor which you have just described as dimly lighted?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a labyrinth of an old house, with corridors, passages, narrow winding staircases, and little low doors, the thresholds of which were hollowed out by the generations who had crossed them.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He glided up the gallery and up the stairs, and stopped in the dark, low corridor of the fateful third storey: I had followed and stood at his side.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Under the guidance of the French squire the party passed down two narrow corridors.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
