PASSAGES Synonyms: 176 Similar and Opposite Words

passages

noun

plural of passage

as in routes

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

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as in trips

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

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as in voyages

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

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as in excerpts

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

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as in processes

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

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as in deaths

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

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Recent Examples of passages Metalpoint is delicate by comparison with ink, almost weblike; but in both cases, the drawings are unraveling clusters and skeins, with passages both tight and loose. — Jeffrey Weiss, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026 Premee Mohamed, Wickhills (Tor Books, September 8) A fantastical spy thriller set on the streets and underground passages of a magical city? — Literary Hub, 1 Sep. 2026 Davis was always a prominent figure in the case, writing a book about the murder that included self-incriminating passages. — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2026 Matisse takes every opportunity to disturb passages of chromatic balance. — Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Preliminary explorations indicate these burials were looted in antiquity; passages linking them are thought to have been made by ancient robbers moving between the tombs. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 31 Aug. 2026 Essentially a form of computational fluid dynamics, the simulation divides the flow passages into a very large number of tiny regions and calculates things such as velocity, pressure, turbulence, and temperature throughout the component. — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 29 Aug. 2026 The album moves between sparse, drumless passages and enormous, low-end-heavy productions, between gospel, hip-hop, trap and atmospheric minimalism. — Desjah Altvater, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 The sensation tends to affect the nasal passages and can sometimes seem stronger than the heat of some peppers. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Interceptions were more frequent than in previous training camps, but, like the one with Moore, some involved the new wideouts fine-tuning their routes.

— Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
The men blocked routes to the port, where ferries connect England to France.

— Kara Fox, CNN Money, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of routes

Noun

As part of the campaign, TAT is running trips that bring filmmakers, producers, influencers and cultural figures into these locations along both a B2B track focused on production logistics and a B2C track aimed at travelers.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 11 Sep. 2026
Instead, the ghosts of flower power rose from their graves and cursed the entire Sex Squadron with a thundercloud of paranoia from all the bad acid trips ever to hit Haight-Ashbury.

— Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of trips

Noun

Media excerpts situate Jarman’s visible advocacy as a spokesperson for the community.

— Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2026
Today such grafts, whether visual or textual, would be called citations; at the time, a text made of excerpts was called a cento, which originally meant a patchwork rag.

— Mario Carpo, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of excerpts

Noun

This suggests that the measurements may be capturing some of the biological processes driving the loss of brain tissue, and could eventually be important for the development of treatments.

— Claudia Metzler-Baddeley, Scientific American, 5 Sep. 2026
Rising costs, complex permitting processes, and infrastructure challenges have made the city less competitive even for productions that want to stay local.

— Sam Roseme, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of processes

Noun

Castro turned 95 in June, just days after he was indicted in Miami for the deaths of four men during the 1996 shootdown over the Floida Straits of a plane belonging to the Cuban exile organization Brothers to the Rescue by Cuban military jets.

— Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026
Construction accounts for a disproportionate share of workplace deaths compared with its share of the overall workforce.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of deaths

Noun

According to Kaiyuan Securities, Huawei reduced source power density through folding and positioned the most heat-intensive modules along paths where heat can escape more easily.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 7 Sep. 2026
DeLauter has been crafty on the base paths, recording 10 steals on 12 attempts.

— Data Skrive, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026

Definition of paths

Noun

However, Pandey also expressed interest in having his company test the Freefly drones in support of mountaineering expeditions.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026
The design keeps the focus on expeditions and wildlife, from art to screens projecting videos of Antarctica or the Arctic in all their pristine glory.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Sep. 2026

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