Definition of passage
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - Transit by means of conveyance; journey, as by water,
carriage, car, or the like; travel; right, liberty, or means, of
passing; conveyance.
- v. i. - Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay
one's passage.
- v. i. - Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
- v. i. - 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.
- v. i. - A continuous course, process, or progress; a connected
or continuous series; as, the passage of time.
- v. i. - A separate part of a course, process, or series; an
occurrence; an incident; an act or deed.
- v. i. - A particular portion constituting a part of something
continuous; esp., a portion of a book, speech, or musical composition;
a paragraph; a clause.
- v. i. - Reception; currency.
- v. i. - A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms.
- v. i. - A movement or an evacuation of the bowels.
- v. i. - 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.