passage

🇺🇸 /ˈpæsɪdʒ/ 🇬🇧 /ˈpæsɪdʒ/
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Tags TOP3000Oxford3000CEFR-B2
noun
B2

A narrow path between walls that connects rooms or places.

We walked through the dark passage to reach the main hall.

R

A tube in the body that air or liquid moves through.

A cold can block your nasal passage.

B2

A short part of a book, music, or other written work.

Please read this passage from the book and answer the questions.

R

The movement of time.

With the passage of time, she became more confident.

R

The process of making a bill into law in a government.

The new law had an easy passage through parliament.

R

A journey by ship from one place to another.

He worked on the ship to pay for his passage to America.

R

A way through something.

The police made a passage through the crowd.

R

The act of moving through or past something.

Trees can block the passage of light.

R

Permission to travel through an area.

They were granted free passage through the country.

translation

n. A narrow path between walls that connects rooms or places.; A tube in the body that air or liquid moves through.; A short part of a book, music, or other written work.; The movement of time.; The process of making a bill into law in a government.; A journey by ship from one place to another.; A way through something.; The act of moving through or past something.; Permission to travel through an area.

Word Forms

Plural passages