corridor
US: /ˈkɔɹədɝ/, /ˈkɔɹɪdɝ/
UK: /kˈɒɹɪdˌɔː/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
corridor /'kɔridɔ:/- danh từ
- hành lang (nhà, toa xe lửa)
- (chính trị) đường hành lang (chạy qua địa phận của một nước khác để thông ra biển)
- corridor train
- xe lửa có hành lang thông từ đầu đến cuối)
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 (AmE also hallway) a long narrow passage in a building or train, with doors that open into rooms on either side: Go along the corridor, turn left, and you'll see his office in front of you.
2 a long narrow strip of land belonging to one country that passes through the land of another country: the Polish corridor
Idioms: the corridors of power (sometimes humorous) the higher levels of government, where important decisions are made
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
hall, hallway, passage, passageway:
We met in the corridor outside my room.
Collocation
ADJ.
endless, long | short | broad, wide | narrow | labyrinthine
the labyrinthine corridors of the ministry building
| brightly-lit | badly-lit, dark, darkened, dim, gloomy, ill-lit | chilly, dank, draughty | bare, blank, featureless | deserted, empty | carpeted, lino-covered, marble-floored, stone, stone-flagged, tiled | picture-lined | white-walled, etc. | hospital, hotel, school | access | land, peace
(both figurative) UN troops will secure the land corridor so that food supplies can reach the trapped civilians.
VERB + CORRIDOR
line
Portraits line the corridors of the palace.
CORRIDOR + VERB
lead
Narrow corridors lead off from the main hallway.
| run along/down sth
The corridor runs down the middle of the building.
| link sth
The corridor links the old part of the hospital with the new.
CORRIDOR + NOUN
wall
PREP.
along a/the ~, at/to the end of a/the ~, down a/the ~
The office is just down the corridor on the left.
| in a/the ~
I put my head down as I passed him in the corridor.
PHRASES
the corridors of power
(figurative) She was a minister with considerable influence in the corridors of power.
| a labyrinth/maze of corridors
She led us through a maze of hotel corridors to our room.
Concise dictionary
corridors'kɒrɪdɔːnoun
+an enclosed passageway; rooms usually open onto it
