Dictionary Entry
passage
passage is a 7-letter English word with 22 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 22 senses
Definitions
- 1intransitive verb
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.
- 2intransitive verb
Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance.
- 3intransitive verb
Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
- 4intransitive verb
Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
- 5intransitive verb
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.
- 6intransitive verb
A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
- 7intransitive verb
A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
- 8intransitive verb
A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause.
- 9intransitive verb
Reception; currency.
- 10intransitive verb
A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
- 11intransitive verb
A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
- 12intransitive verb
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.
- 13noun
the act of passing from one state or place to the next
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- 14noun
a journey usually by ship
"the outward passage took 10 days"
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- 15noun
the act of passing something to another person
- 16noun
a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
"the passage of air from the lungs"
"the passing of flatus"
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- 17noun
the passing of a law by a legislative body
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- 18noun
a way through or along which someone or something may pass
- 19noun
a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
"the nasal passages"
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- 20noun
a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
- 21noun
a short section of a musical composition
- 22noun
the motion of one object relative to another
"stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets"
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