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 The accepted wisdom in yacht design has been that the fastest ocean passages can only be achieved by multihull craft, such as the current crop of Ultim trimarans, which have three hulls in parallel and have set the big records of the past decade. —

Andrew Rice, New York Times, 7 May 2026 Analysis by Lloyd’s List Intelligence, a maritime intelligence agency, showed Wednesday that transit volumes had dropped from 44 to 36 passages over the past week. —

Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 6 May 2026 The exhibition is accompanied by a series of short texts written by Rodez in response to each piece, reflections that range from brief lines to more narrative passages. —

Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 6 May 2026 This model’s display is optimized for color reading and even allows for highlighting favorite lines and passages. —

Bestreviews, Chicago Tribune, 4 May 2026 And the more climate change results in ice sheets melting, the more open Greeland’s maritime passages will grow. —

Jordan Blum, Fortune, 2 May 2026 The addition of spoken word passages by local Geordie poet Cooper Robson, who drifts through balladic descriptions of community, working-class masculinity, and pickled onions, aids Knats in their explorations of their hometown. —

Archie Forde, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026 Peppermint oil contains concentrated forms of menthol and menthone that irritate the nasal passages of mice. —

Michelle Mastro, Martha Stewart, 30 Apr. 2026 Like athletes, musicians train to master the impossibilities of decades past, to move faster, negotiate acrobatic passages with ease, reel off complex rhythms, and produce once exotic timbres. —

Justin Davidson, Vulture, 29 Apr. 2026

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Receivers Mikey Matthews for white and Landon Ellis for blue scored the other two touchdowns on red zone crossing routes.

— Sean Campbell, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
Airlines have been adding flights since Spirit’s bankruptcy filing last year on some of its routes and at major airports.

— Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 May 2026