passage
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
Audio (GA) (file) - Hyphenation: pass‧age
- Rhymes: -æsɪdʒ
Noun edit
passage (plural passages)
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- passage of scripture
- She struggled to play the difficult passages.
- Part of a path or journey.
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- 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.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]
- The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
- 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.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- A passageway or corridor.
- (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.
- 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.
- The right to pass from one place to another.
- A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
- (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.]
Derived terms edit
- back passage
- bird of passage
- clobber passage
- couldn't stop a pig in a passage
- cross-passage
- deck passage
- first passage time
- first-passage time
- innocent passage
- middle passage
- New Passage
- Northeast Passage
- Northwest Passage
- passage grave
- passage-house
- passage house
- passage maker, passagemaker
- passage migrant
- passage of arms
- passage of time
- passage plan
- passage planning
- passage tomb
- passageway
- Passage West
- Restronguet Passage
- rite of passage
- screens passage
- time of pericenter passage
- time of pericentre passage
- Windward Passage
- with the passage of time
- work one's passage
- zenial passage
- zenithal passage
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Verb edit
passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
- (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.
- (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
- They passaged to America in 1902.
Adjective edit
passage (not comparable)
- (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
- Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.
Etymology 2 edit
From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
passage (plural passages)
- (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 edit
Verb edit
passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)
- (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 edit
- “passage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “passage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “passage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Dutch edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren + -age.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)
- A passage, a stage of a journey.
- A passageway, a corridor, a narrow route.
- A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning.
- a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street.
- Synonym: winkelpassage
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Indonesian: pasasê
French edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /pa.saʒ/, /pɑ.saʒ/
Audio (France, Paris) (file) - Homophones: passagent, passages
- Rhymes: -aʒ
Etymology 1 edit
From Old French, from passer + -age.
Noun edit
passage m (plural passages)
- the act of going through a place or event
- the time when such an act occurs
- (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement
- (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another, or crosses a meridian
- a short stay
- a trip or travel, especially by boat
- the act of going from a state to another
- graduation from a school year
- the act of making something undergo a process
- the act of handing something to someone
- an access way
- a laid out way allowing to go across something
- an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars
- a paragraph or section of text or music
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- → Czech: pasáž
- → German: Passage
- → Polish: pasaż
- → Portuguese: passagem
- → Romanian: pasaj
- → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
- → Turkish: pasaj
Etymology 2 edit
Verb form of passager.
Verb edit
passage
- inflection of passager:
Further reading edit
- “passage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Old French edit
Noun edit
passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)
- passage (part of a route or journey)
- c. 1180, Chrétien de Troyes, Lancelot ou le Chevalier de la charrette:
- Volez que je vos die gierres
Del passage com il est max ?- Do you want me to tell you
Of the passage, how bad it is?
- Do you want me to tell you
Descendants edit
Swedish edit
Etymology edit
From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
passage c
- a passage (leading from one place to another)
- Synonym: genomgång
- (a) passage, (a) transit (act of passing over, across, or through)
- (astronomy) a transit
- a passage (of text or music)
- (dressage) passage
Declension edit
Declension of passage | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | passage | passagen | passager | passagerna |
Genitive | passages | passagens | passagers | passagernas |