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adj
Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, not-comparable
Topics: falconry, hobbies, hunting, lifestyle
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name
Ellipsis of Passage West, Ireland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
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noun
A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
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noun
Part of a path or journey.
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noun
An incident or episode.
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noun
The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
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noun
The advance of time.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: passing
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noun
The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: art, arts
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noun
A passageway or corridor.
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noun
A strait or other narrow waterway.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: nautical, transport
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noun
An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: caving, hobbies, lifestyle
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noun
The vagina.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: euphemistic
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noun
The act of passing; movement across or through.
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noun
The right to pass from one place to another.
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noun
A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
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noun
Serial passage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: bacteriology, biology, microbiology, natural-sciences, virology
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noun
A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: dice, games
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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: dressage, hobbies, horses, lifestyle, pets, sports
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verb
To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
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Topics: medicine, sciences
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verb
To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rare
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verb
To execute a passage movement.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
Topics: dressage, hobbies, horses, lifestyle, pets, sports
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noun
the act of passing from one state or place to the next
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: transition
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change of state
Narrower terms: fossilization, fossilisation, segue
noun
a journey usually by ship
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: transit
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Broader terms: journey, journeying
Narrower terms: lockage
noun
the act of passing something to another person
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: handing over
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Broader terms: delivery, bringing
Narrower terms: relay
noun
a bodily reaction of changing from one place or stage to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: passing
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Broader terms: reaction, response
noun
the passing of a law by a legislative body
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: enactment
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Broader terms: legislation, legislating, lawmaking
noun
a way through or along which someone or something may pass
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: way
Narrower terms: adit, aisle, channel, conduit, cul, cul de sac, dead end, fish ladder, passageway, right of way, shaft, throat
noun
a path or channel or duct through or along which something may pass
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: passageway
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: structure, anatomical structure, complex body part, bodily structure, body structure
Narrower terms: birth canal, meatus, orifice, opening, porta, duct, epithelial duct, canal, channel, sinusoid, carpal tunnel, root canal, esophagus, oesophagus, gorge, gullet, epicardia, fauces, fistula, sinus, shunt
noun
a section of text; particularly a section of medium length
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: section, subdivision
Narrower terms: excerpt, excerption, extract, selection, locus classicus, place, purple passage, transition, text
noun
a short section of a musical composition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: musical passage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: musical composition, opus, composition, piece, piece of music
Narrower terms: allegro, allegretto, andante, intro, phrase, musical phrase, cadence, cadenza, largo, adagio, recitative, transition, modulation, impromptu
noun
the motion of one object relative to another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: passing
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: movement, motion
History
Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
Across languages
120 source translations are retained for this English entry.
