passage — OET

passage

noun

1 only one incident marred their passage through the country | the passage of sound through water:

transit, progress, passing, movement, moving, motion, going, crossing, travelling, traversal, traverse.

2 the passage of time:

passing, advance, course, march, moving on, flow.

3 they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture:

safe conduct, entry, admission, access;

permission/authorization to travel through, leave to travel in;

warrant, visa.

4 the overnight passage to Aberdeen was wild and stormy:

voyage, crossing, trip, cruise, sail;

journey, tour, trek.

5 police officers cleared a passage to the front door:

way, way through, route, path, course.

6 a small passage led to the kitchen:

corridor, passageway, hall, hallway, entrance hall, entrance, walkway, aisle, gangway.

7 a passage between the buildings:

alley, alleyway, lane, path, pathway, way, footpath, track, trackway, road, thoroughfare;

Scottish, & Northern English ginnel, snicket, vennel, wynd, twitten;

Midlands English twitchel;

North American areaway;

North American, & West Indian trace;

Indian gully.

8 food and air passages | the nasal passages:

duct;

orifice, opening, aperture, hole, channel;

inlet, outlet.

9 an abrupt passage from the darkness of the Middle Ages to the light of the Renaissance:

transition, development, progress, progression, move, change, shift, conversion, metamorphosis.

10 the passage of a Private Member's Bill:

enactment, passing, ratification, acceptance, approval, adoption, authorization, sanction, validation, legalization, endorsement.

11 a passage from ‘Macbeth’:

extract, excerpt, quotation, quote, citation, cite, reading, section, piece, selection, part, snippet, fragment, portion;

text, paragraph, verse, stanza, canto, line, sentence, phrase.

passage (1) Oxford Dictionary of English