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 machine’s repertoire included answers to 12 riddles, passages from books, and laughing, crying and kissing sounds, as well as arias sung in both male and female voices—all feats that Edison’s phonograph would one day be able to accomplish by recording and playing back the human voice. —

Ron Cowen, Scientific American, 3 June 2026 The passages won’t be large enough for bighorn — with their broad horns — to squeeze through, advocates say. —

Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026 For a while, Claude kept spitting out the same inert passages, in which Jay Gatsby or Sherlock Holmes did a whole lot of nothing and had no opinion about the very little that was happening around them. —

Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 2 June 2026 The series asks her to carry nearly every frame, including long passages with no dialogue at all. —

Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 2 June 2026 The Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame and the Louvre are major draws, but the report also points to the city’s secret passages, romantic bridges, cafés and 450 parks. —

Laura Begley Bloom, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 To get the up-close action on the pitch required a painstaking mix of recreating passages of play with actors, complemented by a lot of tech wizardry. —

Stewart Clarke, Deadline, 27 May 2026 Other approaches to getting salmon above dams, such as creating fish passages and trucking operations, can also help restore access to historical spawning habitat. —

Eric Palkovacs, The Conversation, 26 May 2026 One of her favorite book passages comes from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre. —

Windsor Johnston, NPR, 25 May 2026

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Nepali climbers are now the ones overseeing the securing of the routes up the mountain, and the fixing of the rope lines that help clients navigate the most difficult sections.

— Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
The Fortress can be taken off the road, too, via an addition Extreme offroad Suspension system that can handle any unexpected routes, while the four-wheel drive can tackle mud, snow, rocks, in addition to being a statement-making daily driver.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 May 2026