corridorとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈkɒɹɪdɔː/, /-də/
• (General American) enPR: kôrʹədôr', IPA: /ˈkɔɹəˌdɔɹ/; enPR: kôrʹədər', IPA: /ˈkɔɹədɚ/
• (New York City) IPA: /ˈkɑɹəˌdɔɹ/; IPA: /ˈkɑɹədɚ/
• ハイフネーション: cor‧ri‧dor

名詞

corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
   • 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 1931, Francis Beeding, Death Walks in Eastrepps, chapter 1/1:

     Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.

   • 1977, Isley Brothers, “Footsteps in the Dark”, in Go for Your Guns:

     My mind drifts now and then / Lookin' down dark corridors and wonders what might have been / Something's up ahead / Hey, should I keep this same direction or go back instead?

2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
   • 1951 November, Brian Reed, “An Austro-German "Corridor" Line”, in Railway Magazine, page 778:

     In addition, there are two up and two down korridorzug [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 Austria; the korridor thus refers to the corridor through Germany and not through the train.

3. (military, 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

   Pike-Pine Corridor, Seattle

派生語