passage meaning
EN
[ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ] [ˈpasɑːʒ] 
US WPassage
- Passage may refer to:
FR passage 
- NounPLpassagesSUF-age
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- passage of scripture
- She struggled to play the difficult passages.
- Part of a path or journey.
- He made his passage through the trees carefully, mindful of the stickers.
- The official approval of a bill or act by a parliament.
- The company was one of the prime movers in lobbying for the passage of the act.
- (art) The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
- A passageway or corridor.
- (caving) An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
- (euphemistic) The vagina.
- The act of passing.
- (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.
- A paragraph or section of text or music with particular meaning.
- VerbSGpassagesPRpassagingPT, PPpassaged
- (medicine) To pass a pathogen 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.
- (rare) To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
- They passaged to America in 1902.
- (intransitive, dressage) To execute a passage movement.
- After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash [ …]
- (medicine) To pass a pathogen through a host or medium.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- This passage is forté, then there's a diminuendo to mezzo piano.
- Seven overnight passages with pexiganan caused MIC increase in 6 of 7 bacterial species tested.
- se Palley, Unlikely Passages (1998) p. 39. We are anesthetized against most terrors of land. ... HydroPhobias begin on land long before casting off. But once at sea, fear quickly is lost.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- The geologic record registers a number of other things happening around the time of this superwave passage.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of passage in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Nouns
- fr passage
- en passages
- fr passages
- en passageway
- en passageways
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "passage" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb.