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noun

a portion or section of a written work; a paragraph, verse, etc.: a passage of Scripture.

a phrase or other division of a musical work.

Fine Arts. an area, section, or detail of a work, especially with respect to its qualities of execution: passages of sensitive brushwork.

an act or instance of passing from one place, condition, etc., to another; transit.

the permission, right, or freedom to pass: to refuse passage through a territory.

the route or course by which a person or thing passes or travels.

an opening or entrance into, through, or out of something: the nasal passages.

a voyage by water from one point to another: a rough passage across the English Channel.

the privilege of conveyance as a passenger: to book passage on an ocean liner.

the price charged for accommodation on a ship; fare.

a lapse or passing, as of time.

a progress or course, as of events.

the enactment into law of a legislative measure.

an interchange of communications, confidences, etc., between persons.

an exchange of blows; altercation or dispute: a passage at arms.

an evacuation of the bowels.

an occurrence, incident, or event.

verb (used without object), pas·saged, pas·sag·ing.

noun

a slow, cadenced trot executed with great elevation of the feet and characterized by a moment of suspension before the feet strike the ground.

verb (used without object), pas·saged, pas·sag·ing.

(of a horse) to execute such a movement.

(of a rider) to cause a horse to execute such a movement.

verb (used with object), pas·saged, pas·sag·ing.

to cause (a horse) to passage.

Words related to passage

clause, paragraph, portion, quotation, reading, section, sentence, text, transition, verse, change, flow, journey, movement, passing, progress, transfer, trip, acceptance, establishment

How to use passage in a sentence

• She recalled that when she became pregnant with her first child, in 1955, she refused to accept “folklore” about pain as a rite of passage.

• When Google first announced passage ranking, the company called it passage indexing.

• Some scenes are connected by a rippling piano riff that suggests the passage of time, though we’re never quite sure if days, weeks or months have gone by.

• Time marches on for all of us, and even if we refuse to acknowledge what we see in our own mirrors, we rarely hesitate to mark its passage in the faces of our actors.

• When an odor—say, vanillin, the dominant chemical in vanilla—drifts into the nasal passage, it grasps onto its preferred receptor.

• She fails to appreciate the congressional and constitutional obstacles Johnson had to overcome to win passage of the bill.

• One of the rites of passage for every young political reporter is to listen to the elders tell stories about campaigns past.

• Going to The Ball, signing up for JDate, downloading JSwipe are all modern-day rites of passage.

• In the neighborhoods they grow up in, prison is a rite of passage and being a street gangster is a viable career choice.

• That morning, he sat in the windowsill and began his day like every other: reading the Bible passage that coincided with the date.

• Henry Hudson sailed from Gravesend on his first voyage for the discovery of a northwest passage to India.

• That he discovered two staples upon one side, which was all of boards, without any passage for light.

• She heard through the half-open door Mr. Orgreave's slippers on the tiles of the passage leading to the stairs.

• This work is now lost, and we know it only by the abstract given by Photius in the passage quoted.

• Capt. Ross sailed from Shetland, on his first voyage for the discovery of the north-west passage.

noun

a channel, opening, etc, through or by which a person or thing may pass

musica section or division of a piece, movement, etc

a way, as in a hall or lobby

a section of a written work, speech, etc, esp one of moderate length

a journey, esp by shipthe outward passage took a week

the act or process of passing from one place, condition, etc, to anotherpassage of a gas through a liquid

the permission, right, or freedom to passto be denied passage through a country

the enactment of a law or resolution by a legislative or deliberative body

an evacuation of the bowels

rarean exchange or interchange, as of blows, words, etc (esp in the phrase passage of arms)

noun

a sideways walk in which diagonal pairs of feet are lifted alternately

a cadenced lofty trot, the moment of suspension being clearly defined

verb

to move or cause to move at a passage