Passage

n.	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. What! are my doors opposed against my passage! - Shak.
	2.	Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water, carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of passing; conveyance. The ship in which he had taken passage. - Macaulay.
	3.	Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.
	4.	Removal from life; decease; departure; death. When he is fit and season'd for his passage. - Shak.
	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. And with his pointed dart Explores the nearest passage to his heart. - Dryden. The Persian army had advanced into the . . . passages of Cilicia. - South.
	6.	A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected or continuous series; as, the passage of time. The conduct and passage of affairs. - Sir J. Davies. The passage and whole carriage of this action. - Shak.
	7.	A separate part of a course, process, or series; an occurrence; an incident; an act or deed. The . . . almost incredible passage of their unbelief. - South.
	8.	A particular portion constituting a part of something continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition; a paragraph; a clause. How commentators each dark passage shun. - Young.
	9.	Reception; currency.
	10.	A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. - Tennyson.
	11.	A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
	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 final question was then put upon its passage. - Cushing. In passage in passing; cursorily. Middle passage See under Middle, Northeast, etc. - Bacon. Of passage passing from one place, region, or climate, to another; migratory; - said especially of birds. Passage hawk a hawk taken on its passage or migration. - Longfellow. Passage money money paid for conveyance of a passenger, - usually for carrying passengers by water.

Noun	1.	passage - the act of passing from one state or place to the next Synonyms: transition
	2.	passage - a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
	3.	passage - a way through or along which someone or something may pass
	4.	passage - the passing of a law by a legislative body Synonyms: enactment
	5.	passage - a journey usually by ship; "the outward passage took 10 days" Synonyms: transit
	6.	passage - a short section of a musical composition Synonyms: musical passage
	7.	passage - a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass; "the nasal passages" Synonyms: passageway
	8.	passage - a bodily process of passing from one place or stage to another; "the passage of air from the lungs"; "the passing of flatus" Synonyms: passing
	9.	passage - the motion of one object relative to another; "stellar passings can perturb the orbits of comets" Synonyms: passing
	10.	passage - the act of passing something to another person Synonyms: handing over

PASSAGE. A way over water; a voyage made over the sea or great river; as, the Sea Gull had a quick passage: the money paid for the transportation of a person over the sea; as, my, passage to Europe was one hundred and fifty dollars.

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