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passage

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of passage

approach, avenue, path, route, way
Words Related to passage

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 of passage

expedition, journey, peregrination, travel(s), trek, trip
Words Related to passage

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 of passage

crossing, cruise, sail, voyage

4 a part taken from a longer work

  • the news report quoted a passage from the novel
Synonyms of passage

excerpt, extract
Words Related to passage

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 of passage

advance, advancement, furtherance, going, headway, march, onrush, process, procession, progress, progression
Words Related to passage

current, drift, flow, flux, stream, way

advent, approach, arrival, coming, nearing

bound, jump, leap, step, stride

impetus, momentum
Near Antonyms of passage

backwash, ebb, reflux

retraction, return, reversal, reverse

about-face, turnabout, turnaround
Antonyms of passage

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 of passage

curtains, death, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passing, quietus, sleep
Words Related to passage

casualty, fatality

martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide

annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin

assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
Near Antonyms of passage

existence, life

creation, genesis, origination, rise
Antonyms of passage

birth, nativity

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