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Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

passage (plural passages)

  1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
    passage of scripture
    She struggled to play the difficult passages.
  2. Part of a path or journey.
    He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  7. A passageway or corridor.
  8. (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
  9. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  10. (euphemistic) The vagina.
  1. The act of passing; movement across or through.
  1. The right to pass from one place to another.
  2. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
  3. (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
  4. (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.]

section of text or music — see also excerpt

part of a journey

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

  1. (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.
  2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
    They passaged to America in 1902.

passage (not comparable)

  1. (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.

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.

passage (plural passages)

  1. (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.

movement in dressage

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

  1. (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 […]

From Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren +‎ -age.

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)

  1. a passage, a stage of a journey
  2. a passageway, a corridor, a narrow route
  3. a paragraph or section of text with particular meaning
  4. a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street
    Synonym: winkelpassage

From Old French, from passer +‎ -age.

passage m (plural passages)

  1. the act of going through a place or event
  2. the time when such an act occurs
  3. (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement
  4. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another, or crosses a meridian
  5. a short stay
  6. a trip or travel, especially by boat
  7. the act of going from a state to another
  8. graduation from a school year
  9. the act of making something undergo a process
  10. the act of handing something to someone
  11. an access way
  12. a laid out way allowing to go across something
  13. an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars
  14. a paragraph or section of text or music

Verb form of passager.

passage

  1. inflection of passager:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural **passage)

  1. passage (part of a route or journey)

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

passage c

  1. a passage (leading from one place to another)
    Synonym: genomgång
  2. (a) passage, (a) transit (act of passing over, across, or through)
  3. (astronomy) a transit
  4. a passage (of text or music)
  5. (dressage) passage