Thesaurus
passage
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of PASSAGE
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an established course for traveling from one place to another <the long passage down the Atlantic seaboard, around Cape Horn, and up the Pacific Coast to California>
Related Words bypath, byway, lane, laneway [British]; artery, boulevard, bypass, drive, expressway, freeway, high road, highway, pass, passageway, pike, road, roadway, routeway [chiefly British], row, street, thoroughfare, turnpike; walk, walkway; trace, track, trail; airway; bikeway, cycleway [British]; channel, gat, watercourse, waterway; door, doorway, gate, gateway, hatch, portal
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a going from one place to another usually of some distance <an arduous passage across the country>
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a part taken from a longer work <the news report quoted a passage from the novel>
Related Words clip, snippet, sound bite; citation, quotation; locus classicus, longueur, purple passage; context; sample, selection
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forward movement in time or place <a swift passage from mere liking to actual love>
Synonyms advancement, furtherance, going, headway, march, onrush, passage, process, procession, progress, progression
Related Words current, drift, flow, flux, stream, way; advent, approach, arrival, coming, nearing; bound, jump, leap, step, stride; impetus, momentum
Near Antonyms backwash, ebb, reflux; retraction, return, reversal, reverse; about-face, turnabout, turnaround
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the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <weary of this world, he looked forward to the next and sought passage with poison>
Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep
Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
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