passage

passage

noun

Definition of PASSAGE

1

an established course for traveling from one place to another <the long passage down the Atlantic seaboard, around Cape Horn, and up the Pacific Coast to California>

Synonyms approach, avenue, path, route, way

Related Words bypath, byway, lane, laneway [British]; artery, boulevard, bypass, drive, expressway, freeway, high road, highway, pass, passageway, pike, road, roadway, routeway [chiefly British], row, street, thoroughfare, turnpike; walk, walkway; trace, track, trail; airway; bikeway, cycleway [British]; channel, gat, watercourse, waterway; door, doorway, gate, gateway, hatch, portal

2

a going from one place to another usually of some distance <an arduous passage across the country>

Synonyms expedition, passage, peregrination, travel(s), trek, trip

Related Words commutation, commute, errand, excursion, flight, hop, jaunt, junket, outing, sally, sortie, tour; cruise, sail, voyage; drive, ride, spin; grand tour, odyssey, pilgrimage, progress, quest, safari; hike, slog, tramp, walk, walkabout

3

a journey over water in a vessel <the passage to Britain requires several days>

Synonyms crossing, cruise, passage, voyage

4

a part taken from a longer work <the news report quoted a passage from the novel>

Synonyms extract, passage

Related Words clip, snippet, sound bite; citation, quotation; locus classicus, longueur, purple passage; context; sample, selection

5

forward movement in time or place <a swift passage from mere liking to actual love>

Synonyms advancement, furtherance, going, headway, march, onrush, passage, process, procession, progress, progression

Related Words current, drift, flow, flux, stream, way; advent, approach, arrival, coming, nearing; bound, jump, leap, step, stride; impetus, momentum

Near Antonyms backwash, ebb, reflux; retraction, return, reversal, reverse; about-face, turnabout, turnaround

Antonyms recess, recession, regress, regression, retreat, retrogression

6

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <weary of this world, he looked forward to the next and sought passage with poison>

Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep

Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter

Near Antonyms existence, life; creation, genesis, origination, rise

Antonyms birth, nativity