different between corridor vs breezeway

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French corridor, from Italian corridore (“long passage”) (= corridoio), from correre (“to run”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k????d??(?)/, /?k????d?(?)/
• (General American) enPR: kôr??dôr', IPA^(key): /?k????d??/

Noun

corridor (plural corridors)

1. A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, as in a building or in a railway carriage.
2. A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
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.

Derived terms

• the corridors of power
• non-corridor, noncorridor
• Northeast Corridor
• Polish Corridor

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian corridore.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.?i.d??/

Noun

corridor m (plural corridors)

1. passage, corridor

Further reading

• “corridor” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

breeze +? way

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b?i?z?we?/

Noun

breezeway (plural breezeways)

1. A covered walkway, with open sides, that connects two buildings.

   One of his favorite pastimes was strolling through the breezeway on warm spring afternoons.

Hyponyms

• dogtrot (the central breezeway within a dogtrot house)