English Explanatory Dictionary

passage

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
  2. Part of a path or journey.
  3. An incident or episode.
  4. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
  5. The advance of time.
  6. The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  7. A passageway or corridor.
  8. A strait or other narrow waterway.
  9. An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  10. The vagina.
  11. The act of passing; movement across or through.
  12. The right to pass from one place to another.
verb
  1. To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
  2. To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
adj
  1. Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
noun
  1. A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
verb
  1. To execute a passage movement.
name
  1. Ellipsis of Passage West, Ireland.

Pronunciation

/ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ En-us-passage.ogg /ˈpasɑːʒ/

Word forms

passage passages passaging passaged

Etymology

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Synonyms

passing

Related words

cotext locus

Derived words

back passage bird of passage clobber passage couldn't stop a pig in a passage cross-passage deck passage first-passage time first passage time forepassage innocent passage Lemon Tree Passage middle passage midpassage Milsons Passage multipassage New Passage Northeast Passage Northwest Passage Old Passage passageable passage at arms passage boat Passage East passage grave passage-house passage house passagemaker passage maker passage migrant passage of arms passage of time passage plan passage planning passage tomb passageway Passage West passagework repassage Restronguet Passage rite of passage screens passage subpassage time of pericenter passage time of pericentre passage underpassage Windward Passage with the passage of time work one's passage zenial passage zenithal passage
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