passage
♦ pas|sage /p'æsɪdʒ/ (passages)
1 [N-COUNT]
A passage is a long narrow space with walls or fences on both sides, which connects one place or room with another.
Harry stepped into the passage and closed the door behind him.
= passageway, corridor
2 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A passage in a book, speech, or piece of music is a section of it that you are considering separately from the rest.
He reads a passage from Milton.
...the passage in which Blake spoke of the world of imagination...
= excerpt, extract
3 [N-COUNT] usu supp N
A passage is a long narrow hole or tube in your body, which air or liquid can pass along.
...blocked nasal passages.
4 [N-COUNT] oft N through n
A passage through a crowd of people or things is an empty space that allows you to move through them.
He cleared a passage for himself through the crammed streets...
= way
5 [N-UNCOUNT] usu with poss
The passage of someone or something is their movement from one place to another.
Germany had not requested Franco's consent for the passage of troops through Spain...
6 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N from/to n, oft with poss
The passage of someone or something is their progress from one situation or one stage in their development to another.
...the passage from school to college.
= transition
7 [N-SING] the N of n
The passage of a period of time is its passing.
An asset that increases in value with the passage of time.
= passing
8 [N-COUNT]
A passage is a journey by ship.
We'd arrived the day before after a 10-hour passage from Swansea.
= crossing
9 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N prep
If you are granted passage through a country or area of land, you are given permission to go through it.
Mr Thomas would be given safe passage to and from Jaffna...back pas|sage (back passages)
[N-COUNT]
People sometimes refer to their rectum as their back passage. (BRIT INFORMAL)bird of pas|sage (birds of passage)
[N-COUNT]
If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
Most of these emigrants were birds of passage who returned to Spain after a relatively short stay.safe pas|sage
[N-UNCOUNT] also a N, oft N for/to n
If someone is given safe passage, they are allowed to go somewhere safely, without being attacked or arrested.
They were unwilling, or unable, to guarantee safe passage from the city to the aircraft...
1 [N-COUNT]
A passage is a long narrow space with walls or fences on both sides, which connects one place or room with another.
Harry stepped into the passage and closed the door behind him.
= passageway, corridor
2 [N-COUNT] usu with supp
A passage in a book, speech, or piece of music is a section of it that you are considering separately from the rest.
He reads a passage from Milton.
...the passage in which Blake spoke of the world of imagination...
= excerpt, extract
3 [N-COUNT] usu supp N
A passage is a long narrow hole or tube in your body, which air or liquid can pass along.
...blocked nasal passages.
4 [N-COUNT] oft N through n
A passage through a crowd of people or things is an empty space that allows you to move through them.
He cleared a passage for himself through the crammed streets...
= way
5 [N-UNCOUNT] usu with poss
The passage of someone or something is their movement from one place to another.
Germany had not requested Franco's consent for the passage of troops through Spain...
6 [N-UNCOUNT] usu N from/to n, oft with poss
The passage of someone or something is their progress from one situation or one stage in their development to another.
...the passage from school to college.
= transition
7 [N-SING] the N of n
The passage of a period of time is its passing.
An asset that increases in value with the passage of time.
= passing
8 [N-COUNT]
A passage is a journey by ship.
We'd arrived the day before after a 10-hour passage from Swansea.
= crossing
9 [N-UNCOUNT] oft N prep
If you are granted passage through a country or area of land, you are given permission to go through it.
Mr Thomas would be given safe passage to and from Jaffna...back pas|sage (back passages)
[N-COUNT]
People sometimes refer to their rectum as their back passage. (BRIT INFORMAL)bird of pas|sage (birds of passage)
[N-COUNT]
If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
Most of these emigrants were birds of passage who returned to Spain after a relatively short stay.safe pas|sage
[N-UNCOUNT] also a N, oft N for/to n
If someone is given safe passage, they are allowed to go somewhere safely, without being attacked or arrested.
They were unwilling, or unable, to guarantee safe passage from the city to the aircraft...