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plural of passage
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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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- approaches,
- avenues,
- paths,
- routes,
- ways
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- arteries,
- boulevards,
- bypasses,
- drives,
- expressways,
- freeways,
- high roads,
- highways,
- passageways,
- passes,
- pike
- (or pikes),
- roads,
- roadways,
- routeways
- [chiefly British],
- rows,
- streets,
- thoroughfares,
- turnpikes
4
a part taken from a longer work
- the news report quoted a passage from the novel
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5
forward movement in time or place
- a swift passage from mere liking to actual love
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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
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