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Corridor vs Balcony - What's the difference?

corridor | balcony |

As nouns the difference between balcony and corridor

is that balcony is an accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window while corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia).

corridor

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
  • *
  • *: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.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , section=chapter 1/1, title= Death Walks in Eastrepps , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch-case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}
  • A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
  • Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.

    • Derived terms

    * the corridors of power *

    balcony

    English

    (wikipedia balcony)

    Noun

    (balconies)
  • An accessible structure extending from a building, especially outside a window.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (the Bible)
  • An accessible structure overlooking a stage or the like.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
    • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=Sepia Delft tiles surrounded the fireplace, their crudely drawn Biblical scenes in faded cyclamen blending with the pinkish pine, while above them, instead of a mantelshelf, there was an archway high enough to form a balcony with slender balusters and a tapestry-hung wall behind.}}