Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word PASSAGE
PASSAGE
Definitions of PASSAGE
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- Part of a path or journey.
- An incident or episode.
- The advance of time.
- A passageway or corridor.
- The act of passing; movement across or through.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
- (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. [from 15th c.]
- (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
- (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
- (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
- (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.
- (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.
- Short for Passage West, Ireland.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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