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7-letter words (1 found)

PASSAGE,

6-letter words (1 found)

AGAPES,

5-letter words (15 found)

AGAPE,APAGE,APSES,GAPES,GASES,GASPS,PAGES,PASES,PASSE,PEAGS,SAAGS,SAGAS,SAGES,SPAES,SPAGS,

4-letter words (27 found)

AGAS,AGES,APES,APSE,ASEA,ASPS,GAES,GAPE,GAPS,GASP,PAGE,PASE,PASS,PEAG,PEAS,PEGS,SAAG,SAGA,SAGE,SAGS,SAPS,SEAS,SEGS,SEPS,SPAE,SPAG,SPAS,

3-letter words (22 found)

AAS,AGA,AGE,AGS,APE,ASP,ASS,EAS,ESS,GAE,GAP,GAS,PAS,PEA,PEG,PES,SAE,SAG,SAP,SEA,SEG,SPA,

2-letter words (8 found)

AA,AE,AG,AS,EA,ES,PA,PE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 75 words from passage according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of passage

passage

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA(key): /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/
  • Hyphenation: pass‧age
  • Rhymes: -æsɪdʒ

Noun

passage (plural passages)

  1. A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
  2. Part of a path or journey.
  3. An incident or episode.
  4. The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament. [from 17th c.]
  5. The advance of time.
    Synonym: passing
  6. (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
  7. A passageway or corridor.
  8. (nautical) A strait or other narrow waterway.
  9. (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
  10. (euphemistic) The vagina.
  11. The act of passing; movement across or through.
  12. The right to pass from one place to another.
  13. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
  14. (bacteriology, virology) Serial passage.
  15. (dice games, historical) A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten. [from 15th c.]
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Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

  1. (medicine) To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
    He passaged the virus through a series of goats.
    After 24 hours, the culture was passaged to an agar plate.
  2. (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
    They passaged to America in 1902.

Adjective

passage (not comparable)

  1. (falconry, attributive) Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
    Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.

Etymology 2

From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈpasɑːʒ/

Noun

passage (plural passages)

  1. (dressage) 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.
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Verb

passage (third-person singular simple present passages, present participle passaging, simple past and past participle passaged)

  1. (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.

Further reading

  • “passage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • “passage”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • “passage”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch passage, from Middle French passage, from Old French passage. Equivalent to passeren +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌpɑˈsaː.ʒə/
  • Hyphenation: pas‧sa‧ge
  • Rhymes: -aːʒə

Noun

passage f (plural passages, diminutive passagetje n)

  1. A passage, a stage of a journey.
  2. A passageway, a corridor, a narrow route.
  3. A paragraph or section of text with particular meaning.
  4. a passage way in a city, especially a roofed shopping street.
    Synonym: winkelpassage

Derived terms

  • ecopassage
  • faunapassage

Descendants

  • → Indonesian: pasasê

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pa.saʒ/, /pɑ.saʒ/
  • Homophones: passagent, passages
  • Rhymes: -aʒ

Etymology 1

From Old French, from passer +‎ -age.

Noun

passage m (plural passages)

  1. the act of going through a place or event
  2. the time when such an act occurs
  3. (uncountable) Circulation, traffic, movement
  4. (astronomy) Moment when a star or planet occults another, or crosses a meridian
  5. a short stay
  6. a trip or travel, especially by boat
  7. the act of going from a state to another
  8. graduation from a school year
  9. the act of making something undergo a process
  10. the act of handing something to someone
  11. an access way
  12. a laid out way allowing to go across something
  13. an alley or alleyway off-limits to cars
  14. a paragraph or section of text or music
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Czech: pasáž
  • → German: Passage
  • → Polish: pasaż
  • → Portuguese: passagem
  • → Romanian: pasaj
  • → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
  • → Turkish: pasaj

Etymology 2

Verb form of passager.

Verb

passage

  1. inflection of passager:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “passage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Old French

Noun

passage oblique singular, m (oblique plural passages, nominative singular passages, nominative plural passage)

  1. passage (part of a route or journey)

Descendants

  • Middle French: passage
    • → Middle Dutch: passage
      • Dutch: passage
        • → Indonesian: pasasê
    • French: passage
      • → Czech: pasáž
      • → German: Passage
      • → Polish: pasaż
      • → Portuguese: passagem
      • → Romanian: pasaj
      • → Russian: пасса́ж (passáž)
      • → Turkish: pasaj
  • → Middle Armenian: բասաճ (basač)
  • → Middle English: passage
    • English: passage
  • → Irish: pasáiste
  • → Swedish: passage

Swedish

Etymology

From Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /paˈsɑːʂ/, /paˈsɑːɧ/

Noun

passage c

  1. a passage (leading from one place to another)
    Synonym: genomgång
  2. (a) passage, (a) transit (act of passing over, across, or through)
  3. (astronomy) a transit
  4. a passage (of text or music)
  5. (dressage) passage

Declension

References

  • passage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • passage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • passage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Source: wiktionary.org