Corridor vs Hall - What's the difference?
corridor | hall |
A narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see ).
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*: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.
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, section=chapter 1/1, title= A restricted tract of land that allows passage between two places.
Airspace restricted for the passage of aircraft.
A corridor; a hallway.
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, title= A meeting room.
A manor house (originally because a magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion).
A building providing student accommodation at a university.
The principal room of a secular medieval building.
(label) Cleared passageway through a crowd.
* (Ben Jonson) (1572-1637)
As nouns the difference between corridor and hall
is that corridor is a narrow hall or passage with rooms leading off it, for example in railway carriages (see Wikipedia) while hall is a corridor; a hallway.As a proper noun Hall is
{{surname|British and Scandinavian topographic|from=Middle English}} for someone who lived in or near a hall.corridor
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* the corridors of power *hall
English
Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=We tiptoed into the house, up the stairs and along the hall into the room where the Professor had been spending so much of his time.}}
- (Cowell)
- A hall ! a hall!