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Passage   /pˈæsədʒ/  /pˈæsɪdʒ/   Listen
Passage

noun
1.
The act of passing from one state or place to the next.  Synonym: transition.
2.
A section of text; particularly a section of medium length.
3.
A way through or along which someone or something may pass.
4.
The passing of a law by a legislative body.  Synonym: enactment.
5.
A journey usually by ship.  Synonym: transit.
6.
A short section of a musical composition.  Synonym: musical passage.
7.
A path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass.  Synonym: passageway.
8.
A bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another.  Synonym: passing.  "The passing of flatus"
9.
The motion of one object relative to another.  Synonym: passing.
10.
The act of passing something to another person.  Synonym: handing over.



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"Passage" Quotes from Famous Books



... gradually opened the door by almost imperceptible degrees, until the aperture was just wide enough to admit of the passage of his lank body, when he glided into the room and closed it after him, with great care and gentleness. Turning towards Sam, and raising his hands and eyes in token of the unspeakable sorrow with which he regarded the calamity that had befallen the family, ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens
... the most plain and simple diet." He then gives some rules for temperance, which are well worth attending to. This passage of Addison is much in the ...
— Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford - In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew • Edward Berens
... Grey Friars from Nyort were crossing the river alone with her, and as the passage is one of the longest in France, they began to make love to her, that she might not feel dull by the way. She returned them the answer that was due; but they, being neither fatigued by their journeying, nor cooled by the ...
— The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.) • Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
... to her own Palace, and pausing a little said: "I will now show you something which will be quite new to you." We entered a room adjoining her bedroom, which was connected by a narrow passage some fifteen feet in length. On either side the walls were painted and decorated very beautifully. Her Majesty spoke to one of the eunuch attendants, who stooped down and removed from the ground at ...
— Two Years in the Forbidden City • The Princess Der Ling
... realize that fifteen years had flown. Jeanne seemed so little older. But the tall young son was startling evidence of Time's passage. Stanley used to sit gazing at him silently during those first few days, as though trying to drink in the stupendous fact of his existence. Old friends called to hear his adventures; he was given a dinner at the club where he learned, with some surprise, that he was not unfamous ...
— Port O' Gold • Louis John Stellman


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