corridor
(noun) an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
Source: WordNet® 3.1
corridor (plural corridors)
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.
(military, historical, rare) The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place.
Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
Source: Wiktionary
Cor"ri*dor (kr"r-dr or -dr), n. Etym: [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.]
1. (Arch.)
Definition: A gallery or passageway leading to several apartments of a house.
2. (Fort.)
Definition: The covered way lying round the whole compass of the fortifications of a place. [R.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
