passage

noun

A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.

Part of a path or journey.

An incident or episode.

The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.

The advance of time.

(art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.

A passageway or corridor.

(nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.

(caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.

(euphemistic) The vagina.

The act of passing; movement across or through.

The right to pass from one place to another.

A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.

(bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.

(dressage) 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.

Ellipsis of Passage West, Ireland. [A town and port in County Cork, Ireland (Irish grid ref W 7668).]

(dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.

verb

(medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.

(intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

(rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.

adjective

(falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.

Roots

passuspass- · Latin · step, pace

Synonyms for passage

passagewayn enactmentn passingn transitn traject transitionn areawayn legislationn corridorn thoroughfaren entrancen voyagen routen pathn egressn crossingn journeyn

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