【Passage】 ,  【passageway】 ,  【corridor】 ,  【hall】 ,  【hallway】 ,  【gallery】 ,  【arcade】 ,  【cloister】 ,  【aisle】 ,  【ambulatory】  designate a typically long narrow way connecting parts of a building or affording access to a particular room or section in it.

【Passage】  (see also WAY 1 ) and  【passageway】 are the comprehensive terms, usually interchangeable with any of the others.

A  【corridor】 is a 【passageway】 flanked on one or both sides by rooms, apartments, compartments, or offices or leading from one part of a building to another.

【Hall】  can be applied to a 【corridor】 or to a room that serves as an entrance to a house, but  【hallway】 is used only of the former.

A  【gallery】 is a 【corridor】 having a continuous row of windows; it may be a part of the building or form an enclosed veranda.

An  【arcade】 is an arched and covered 【passageway】 , usually between rows of shops but, sometimes, between the front of a row of shops and the street or an open court.

A  【cloister】 is a similar structure in a monastery or in a building imitating monastic architecture, but it runs along one or more sides of an open court or patio, and is arcaded or colonnaded on the outer side.

An  【aisle】  is, basically, not a 【passageway】 but a part of a church or other building divided from the central part, or nave, by a row of columns or piers. The term is also applied to a 【passage】 flanked by rows of seats (as in an auditorium, a theater, a railway car, or a bus).

An  【ambulatory】  is a 【passageway】 through which one may walk; it is specifically applied to the 【cloister】 of a monastery, and to the curved 【passageway】 between the choir of a church and the chapels of an apse.