passage

== English == === Etymology 1 === Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”). ==== Pronunciation ==== (Received Pronunciation, General American, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ (Standard Southern British, Northern England, Scotland, Wales) IPA(key): /ˈpasɪd͡ʒ/ (New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈpɛsəd͡ʒ/ Rhymes: -æsɪdʒ Hyphenation: pass‧age ==== Noun ==== passage (plural passages) A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning. Part of a path or journey. An incident or episode. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.] The advance of time. Synonym: passing (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works. A passageway or corridor. (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide. (euphemistic) The vagina. The act of passing; movement across or through. The right to pass from one place to another. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places. (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage. (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.] ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Descendants ==== → Māori: pāhihi ==== See also ==== ==== Verb ==== passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged) (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross. ==== Adjective ==== passage (not comparable) (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest. === Etymology 2 === From French passager, from Italian passeggiare. ==== Pronunciation ==== (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpasɑːʒ/ ==== Noun ==== passage (plural passages) (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. ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged) (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement. === Further reading === “passage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “passage”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC. “passage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search. == Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren +‎ -age. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌpɑˈsaː.ʒə/ Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧ge Rhymes: -aːʒə === Noun === passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n) a passage, a stage of a journey a passageway, a corridor, a narrow route a paragraph or section of text with particular meaning a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street Synonym: winkelpassage ==== Derived terms ==== ecopassage faunapassage ==== Descendants ==== → Indonesian: pasasê == French == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /pa.saʒ/ ~ /pɑ.saʒ/ Homophones: passagent, passages Rhymes: -aʒ === Etymology 1 === From Old French, from passer +‎ -age. ==== Noun ==== passage m (plural passages) the act of going through a place or event the time when such an act occurs (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another, or crosses a meridian a short stay a trip or travel, especially by boat the act of going from a state to another graduation from a school year the act of making something undergo a process the act of handing something to someone an access way a laid out way allowing to go across something an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars a paragraph or section of text or music ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Descendants ===== → Czech: pasáž → German: Passage → Polish: pasaż → Portuguese: passagem → Romanian: pasaj → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž) → Turkish: pasaj → Persian: پاساژ (pâsâž) === Etymology 2 === Verb form of passager. ==== Verb ==== passage inflection of passager: first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive second-person singular imperative === Further reading === “passage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Old French == === Noun === passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage) passage (part of a route or journey) ==== Descendants ==== Middle French: passage → Middle Dutch: passage Dutch: passage→ Indonesian: pasasê French: passage→ Czech: pasáž→ German: Passage→ Polish: pasaż→ Portuguese: passagem→ Romanian: pasaj→ Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)→ Turkish: pasaj→ Persian: پاساژ (pâsâž) → Middle Armenian: բասաճ (basač) → Middle English: passage English: passage → Irish: pasáiste → Swedish: passage == Swedish == === Etymology === From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /paˈsɑːʂ/, /paˈsɑːɧ/ === Noun === passage c a passage (leading from one place to another) Synonym: genomgång (a) passage, (a) transit (act of passing over, across, or through) (astronomy) a transit a passage (of text or music) (dressage) passage ==== Declension ==== === References === “passage”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish) “passage”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish) “passage”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)