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Passage

Passage Meaning & Definition
Passage Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Passage?

[n] the act of passing from one state or place to the next
[n] a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days"
[n] the act of passing something to another person
[n] a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus"
[n] the passing of a law by a legislative body
[n] a way through or along which someone or something may pass
[n] a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages"
[n] a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
[n] a short section of a musical composition
[n] the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Passage: enactment | handing over | musical passage | passageway | passing | passing | transit | transition

Related Terms | Find terms related to Passage: about-face | abysm | abyss | acceptance | access | acciaccatura | accomplished fact | accomplishment | achievement | act | acta | action | adit | adoption | advance | advancement | advancing | adventure | air lock | aisle | alchemy | alley | allowance | alteration | ambulatory | anacrusis | angular motion | aperture | appoggiatura | approach | approval | arabesque | arcade | areaway | arrangements | arroyo | artery | article | ascending | ascent | assimilation | assumption | authorization | avenue | axial motion | back matter | backflowing | backing | backward motion | bass passage | becoming | blow | book | bourdon | box canyon | breach | break | breezeway | bridge | Brownian movement | burden | cadence | cadenza | canto | canyon | career | cavity | change | change-over | channel | chap | chapter | chasm | check | chimney | chink | chorus | citation | clause | cleft | cleuch | climbing | cloister | clough | coda | col | colonnade | coloratura | column | commerce | communication | commutation | concurrent resolution | conduction | conduit | connection | constitution | contagion | convection | conversion | corridor | coulee | couloir | coup | course | covered way | crack | cranny | crevasse | crevice | crossing | cruise | current | cut | cwm | dealing | dealings | deed | defile | delivery | dell | deportation | descending | descent | development | diapedesis | diffusion | dike | dissemination | ditch | division | doing | doings | donga | downward motion | draw | drift | driftage | duct | ebbing | effort | egress | elapse | embellishment | emigration | enaction | enactment | endeavor | endorsement | endorsing | enterprise | entrance | entranceway | entry | entryway | excavation | excerpt | excerption | exchange | exit | expatriation | exploit | export | exportation | exposition | expulsion | extract | extraction | extradition | facilities | fait accompli | fascicle | fault | feat | ferry | figure | fioritura | fissure | flaw | flight | flip-flop | flourish | flow | flume | flux | folderol | folio | ford | forward motion | forwardal | forwarding | foyer | fracture | freedom | front matter | furrow | furtherance | furthering | gallery | gangplank | gangway | gap | gape | gash | gathering | gest | globe-trotting | go | go-ahead | going | grace | grace note | groove | growth | gulch | gulf | gully | hall | hallway | hand | handiwork | harmonic close | headway | hole | immigration | import | importation | in | incidental | incidental note | incision | ingress | inlet | in-migration | installment | intake | interchange | interlude | intermezzo | intermigration | intersection | introductory phrase | job | joint | joint resolution | journey | journeying | junction | kloof | lane | lapse | lawmaking | leak | leg | legalization | legislation | legislature | legitimatization | legitimization | liberty | line | livraison | lobby | locomotion | loggia | long mordent | maneuver | march | means of access | measure | metastasis | metathesis | metempsychosis | migration | moat | mordent | motion | mounting | move | movement | moving | musical phrase | musical sentence | mutation | mutual transfer | naturalization | notch | nullah | number | oblique motion | ocean trip | ongoing | onrush | onward course | opening | operation | ordainment | orifice | ornament | osmosis | outlet | out-migration | overpass | overt act | page | paragraph | part | pass | passageway | passing | passing over | path | performance | perfusion | pergola | period | peristyle | permission | phrase | plunging | portico | portion | pralltriller | privilege | proceeding | production | progress | progression | progressiveness | promotion | quotation | radial motion | railroad tunnel | random motion | ratification | ravine | reconversion | reduction | reflowing | refluence | reflux | re-formation | refrain | regression | remigration | rent | res gestae | resolution | response | retrogression | reversal | rift | rime | rising | ritornello | road | rolling | rolling on | roulade | route | run | rupture | rush | sail | sanction | scissure | sea trip | seam | section | selected passage | selection | sentence | serial | set | shakedown cruise | sheet | shift | shipment | shipping | sideward motion | signature | single mordent | sinking | slit | slot | soaring | split | spread | spreading | stanza | statement | step | sternway | strain | stream | stroke | stunt | subsiding | swarm | swarming | switch | switch-over | tailpiece | text | thing | thing done | thoroughfare | tour de force | tourism | touristry | trade | traffic | trafficking | traject | trajet | transaction | transduction | transfer | transfer of property | transference | transformation | transfusion | transit | transition | translation | translocation | transmigration | transmigration of souls | transmission | transmittal | transmittance | transplacement | transplantation | transposal | transposition | travel | traveling | traversal | traverse | trek | trench | trend | trip | trough | troughing | troughway | tunnel | turn | turning into | tutti | tutti passage | underpass | undertaking | upward motion | valley | variation | verse | vestibule | visa | void | volte-face | volume | voyage | wadi | way | way in | work | works

See Also | adagio | adit | aisle | allegro | anatomical structure | birth canal | bodily structure | body structure | bringing | cadenza | canal | change of state | channel | channel | complex body part | composition | conduit | cul | cul de sac | dead end | delivery | duct | epicardia | epithelial duct | esophagus | excerpt | extract | fauces | fish ladder | fistula | fossilisation | fossilization | gorge | gullet | impromptu | intro | journey | journeying | largo | lawmaking | legislating | legislation | lockage | locus classicus | meatus | modulation | motion | movement | musical composition | musical phrase | oesophagus | opening | opus | orifice | passageway | phrase | piece | piece of music | place | porta | purple passage | reaction | recitative | relay | response | right of way | root canal | section | selection | shaft | shunt | sinus | sinusoid | structure | subdivision | text | textual matter | throat | transition | way

Passage In Webster's Dictionary

\Pas"sage\, n. [F. passage. See {Pass}, v. i.] 1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body. What! are my doors opposed against my passage! --Shak. 2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance. The ship in which he had taken passage. --Macaulay. 3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage. 4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] ``Endure thy mortal passage.'' --Milton. When he is fit and season'd for his passage. --Shak. 5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. --Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. --South. 6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time. The conduct and passage of affairs. --Sir J. Davies. The passage and whole carriage of this action. --Shak. 7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. ``In thy passages of life.'' --Shak. The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief. --South. 8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. --Young. 9. Reception; currency. [Obs.] --Sir K. Digby. 10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. --Tennyson. 11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels. 12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed. ``The passage of the Stamp Act.'' --D. Hosack. The final question was then put upon its passage. --Cushing. {In passage}, in passing; cursorily. ``These . . . have been studied but in passage.'' --Bacon. {Middle passage}, {Northeast passage}, {Northwest passage}. See under {Middle}, {Northeast}, etc. {Of passage}, passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds. ``Birds of passage.'' --Longfellow. {Passage hawk}, a hawk taken on its passage or migration. {Passage money}, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water. Syn: Vestibule; hall; corridor. See {Vestibule}.

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