corridor
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Corridor \Cor"ri*dor\ (k?r"r?-d?r or -d?r), n. [F., fr. Itt.
corridpore, or Sp. corredor; prop., a runner, hence, a
running or long line, a gallery, fr. L. currere to run. See
{Course}.]
[1913 Webster]
1. (Arch.) A gallery or passageway leading to several
apartments of a house.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Fort.) The covered way lying round the whole compass of
the fortifications of a place. [R.]
[1913 Webster]
3. any relatively narrow passageway or route, such as a strip
of land through a foreign territory.
[PJC]
4. a densely populated stretch of land; as, the Northeast
corridor, extending from Richmond, Virginia into Maine.
[PJC]
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
102 Moby Thesaurus words for "corridor":
access, adit, air lane, air line, air lock, air route, airspace,
airway, aisle, alley, ambulatory, aperture, approach, arcade, area,
areaway, artery, avenue, belt, breezeway, channel, cloister,
colonnade, communication, conduit, confines, connection,
continental shelf, couloir, country, covered way, defile,
department, district, division, entrance, entranceway, entry,
entryway, environs, exit, ferry, ford, gallery, gangplank, gangway,
ground, hall, hallway, heartland, hinterland, in, ingress, inlet,
intake, interchange, intersection, junction, land, lane, loggia,
means of access, milieu, neighborhood, offshore rights, opening,
outlet, overpass, part, parts, pass, passage, passageway, path,
pergola, peristyle, place, portico, precincts, premises, purlieus,
quarter, railroad tunnel, region, salient, section, soil, space,
terrain, territory, three-mile limit, traject, trajet, tunnel,
twelve-mile limit, underpass, vestibule, vicinage, vicinity, way,
way in, zone
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