Definition of: corridor

(kôr′ə·dər, -dôr, kor′-) noun
1. A gallery or passage in a building, usually having various rooms opening upon it.
2. A strip of land across a foreign country by which a landlocked nation has access to the sea.
3. A strip of territory including two or more major cities, typically heavily traveled and as a region densely populated: the Northeast Corridor of the United States. [<F <Ital. corridore <correre run <L currere]