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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Passage \Pas"sage\, noun [F. passage. See {Pass}, verb (used without an object)]
1. The act of passing; transit from one place to another; movement from point to point; a going by, over, across, or through; as, the passage of a man or a carriage; the passage of a ship or a bird; the passage of light; the passage of fluids through the pores or channels of the body.
What! are my doors opposed against my passage! --Shak.
2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
The ship in which he had taken passage. --Macaulay.
3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy mortal passage." --Milton.
When he is fit and season'd for his passage. --Shak.
5. Way; road; path; channel or course through or by which one passes; way of exit or entrance; way of access or transit. Hence, a common avenue to various apartments in a building; a hall; a corridor.
And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. --Dryden.
The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. --South.
6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
The conduct and passage of affairs. --Sir J. Davies.
The passage and whole carriage of this action. --Shak.
7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. "In thy passages of life." --Shak.
The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief. --South.
8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
How commentators each dark passage shun. --Young.
9. Reception; currency. [Obs.] --Sir K. Digby.
10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. --Tennyson.
11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
12. In parliamentary proceedings: (a) The course of a proposition (bill, resolution, etc.) through the several stages of consideration and action; as, during its passage through Congress the bill was amended in both Houses. (b) The advancement of a bill or other proposition from one stage to another by an affirmative vote; esp., the final affirmative action of the body upon a proposition; hence, adoption; enactment; as, the passage of the bill to its third reading was delayed. "The passage of the Stamp Act." --D. Hosack.
The final question was then put upon its passage. --Cushing.
{In passage}, in passing; cursorily. "These . . . have been studied but in passage." --Bacon.
{Middle passage}, {Northeast passage}, {Northwest passage}. See under {Middle}, {Northeast}, etc.
{Of passage}, passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; -- said especially of birds. "Birds of passage." --Longfellow.
{Passage hawk}, a hawk taken on its passage or migration.
{Passage money}, money paid for conveyance of a passenger, -- usually for carrying passengers by water.
Syn: Vestibule; hall; corridor. See {Vestibule}.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the act of passing from one state or place to the next [syn: {passage}, {transition}]
2: a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
3: a way through or along which someone or something may pass
4: the passing of a law by a legislative body [syn: {enactment}, {passage}]
5: a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days" [syn: {passage}, {transit}]
6: a short section of a musical composition [syn: {passage}, {musical passage}]
7: a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" [syn: {passage}, {passageway}]
8: a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" [syn: {passage}, {passing}]
9: the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" [syn: {passing}, {passage}]
10: the act of passing something to another person [syn: {passage}, {handing over}]
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