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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Passage \Pas"sage\, n. [F. passage. See {Pass}, v. i.] 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. [1913 Webster] What! are my doors opposed against my passage! --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance. [1913 Webster] The ship in which he had taken passage. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster] 3. Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage. [1913 Webster] 4. Removal from life; decease; departure; death. [R.] "Endure thy mortal passage." --Milton. [1913 Webster] When he is fit and season'd for his passage. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. --South. [1913 Webster] 6. A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time. [1913 Webster] The conduct and passage of affairs. --Sir J. Davies. [1913 Webster] The passage and whole carriage of this action. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 7. A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. "In thy passages of life." --Shak. [1913 Webster] The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief. --South. [1913 Webster] 8. A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. [1913 Webster] How commentators each dark passage shun. --Young. [1913 Webster] 9. Reception; currency. [Obs.] --Sir K. Digby. [1913 Webster] 10. A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. [1913 Webster] No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 11. A movement or an evacuation of the bowels. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] The final question was then put upon its passage. --Cushing. [1913 Webster] {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. [1913 Webster] Syn: Vestibule; hall; corridor. See {Vestibule}. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: passage n 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}] From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: passage /pasaʒ/ passage; way From German-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.3 [fd-deu-eng]: Passage /pasaːʒə/ passage From Dutch-English Freedict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 [fd-nld-eng]: passage /pɑsaʒə/ 1. gate; gangway; passage; passageway 2. traffic 3. passage