passage

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English

Etymology 1

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

passage (plural passages)

  1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
    passage of scripture
    She struggled to play the difficult passages.
  2. Part of a path or journey.
    He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  3. An incident or episode.
    • 1961, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs, Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961: Hearings
      But there are those who do not feel that the sordid passages of life should be kept off the stage. It is a matter of opinion.
  4. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
    The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
  5. The advance of time.
    Synonym: passing
    • 2011, Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney, Willpower, →ISBN, page 209:
      The passage of decades has not erased the value of parental monitoring.
  6. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  7. A passageway or corridor.
  8. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  9. (euphemistic) The vagina.
    • 1986, Bertrice Small, A Love for All Time,[1] New American Library, →ISBN, page 463:
      With a look of triumph that he was unable to keep from his dark eyes he slid into her passage with one smooth thrust, […]
    • 1987, Usha Sarup, Expert Lovemaking, Jaico Publishing House, →ISBN, page 53:
      This way, the tip of your penis will travel up and down her passage.
    • 2009, Cat Lindler, Kiss of a Traitor, Medallion Press, →ISBN, page 249:
      At the same moment, Aidan plunged two fingers deep into her passage and broke through her fragile barrier.
  10. The act of passing; movement across or through.
    • 1886, Pacific medical journal Volume 29
      He claimed that he felt the passage of the knife through the ilio-cæcal valve, from the very considerable pain which it caused.
  11. The right to pass from one place to another.
  12. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
Derived terms
Translations
section of text or music

Verb

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  1. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium
    He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
    After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
  2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross
    They passaged to America in 1902.

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French passager, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian passeggiare

Pronunciation

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Noun

passage (plural passages)

  1. (dressage) A movement in classical dressage, in which the horse performs a very collected, energetic, and elevated trot that has a longer period of suspension between each foot fall than a working trot.
Translations

Verb

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  1. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement
    • 1915, Cunninghame Graham, Hope‎[2], page 18:
      After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]

Further reading

Dutch

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Etymology

From passeren +‎ -age

Pronunciation

  • audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧ge

Noun

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)

  1. A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning. ~ of scripture.
  2. a passage way in a city.

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French, from passer +‎ -age.

Noun

passage m (plural passages)

  1. The act of going through a place or event.
  2. The time when such an act occurs.
  3. (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement.
  4. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another,or crosses a meridian.
  5. A short stay.
  6. A trip or travel, especially by boat.
  7. The act of going from a state to another.
  8. Graduation from a school year.
  9. The act of making something undergo a process.
  10. the act of handing something to someone.
  11. An access way.
  12. A laid out way allowing to go across something.
  13. An alley or alleyway off-limits to cars.
  14. A paragraph or section of text or music.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb form of passager.

Verb

passage

  1. first-person singular present indicative of passager
  2. third-person singular present indicative of passager
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of passager
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of passager
  5. second-person singular imperative of passager

Further reading

Old French

Noun

passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)

  1. passage (part of a route or journey)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”)

Pronunciation

Noun

passage c

  1. access, transit
    Synonym: genomgång

Declension

Declension of passage 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative passage passagen passager passagerna
Genitive passages passagens passagers passagernas

References

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