passages

The word “passages” has 3 syllables: pas-sag-es

It's pronounced as /ˈpæsɪdʒɪz/

What is synonym and antonym for passages?

In the thesaurus, “passages” has 228 synonyms and 34 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for passages along with examples of usage in sentences.

Synonyms for passages

acceptance
access
advance
advancements
advances
advents
airways
alley
alleyway
allowance
annihilations
approaches
arrivals
arteries
assassinations
avenue
avenues
bikeways
boulevards
bounds
bypasses
bypaths
byways
casualties
change
channel
channels
citations
clause
clips
comings
commutations
commutes
contexts
conversion
corridor
course
crossing
crossings
cruises
currents
curtains
cycleways
deaths
deceases
demises
destructions
dissolutions
dooms
doors
doorway
doorways
drifts
drives
endings
ends
entrance
entrance hall
errands
establishment
excerpts
excursions
executions
exit
exits
expeditions
expirations
expiries
expressways
exterminations
extract
extracts
fatalities
fates
flights
flow
flows
fluxes
freedom
freeways
furtherances
gap
gates
gateways
gats
goings
grand tours
graves
great divides
hall
hallway
hatches
headways
high roads
highways
hikes
hops
impetuses
jaunts
journey
journeys
jumps
junkets
killings
lane
lanes
laneways
leaps
legalization
legislation
line
lobby
loci classici
longueurs
marches
martyrdoms
massacres
momenta
momentums
motion
movement
odysseys
onrushes
opening
outings
paragraph
passageways
passes
passing
passings
passport
paths
pathway
peregrinations
permission
piece
pike
pikes
pilgrimages
portals
portion
processes
processions
progress
progresses
progression
progressions
purple passages
quests
quietuses
quotation
quotations
ratification
reading
rides
right
road
roads
roadways
route
routes
routeways
rows
ruins
safaris
safe-conduct
sails
sallies
samples
section
selections
self-destructions
self-murders
self-slaughters
sentence
shaft
slaughters
sleeps
slogs
snippets
sorties
sound bites
spins
steps
streams
streets
strides
subway
suicides
text
thoroughfare
thoroughfares
tour
tours
traces
tracks
trails
traject
tramps
transfer
transference
transit
transition
transmission
transmittal
transmittance
travels
traverse
traversing
trek
treks
trip
trips
tunnel
turnpikes
verse
vestibule
visa
voyage
voyages
walkabouts
walks
walkways
warrant
watercourses
waterways
way
ways

Antonyms for passages

about-faces
backwashes
births
blockage
creations
denial
ebbs
existences
geneses
idleness
inaction
lives
nativities
originations
recesses
recessions
refluxes
refusal
regresses
regressions
retractions
retreats
retrogressions
returns
reversals
reverses
rises
stagnation
stop
turnabouts
turnarounds
veto
wait
whole

Meanings of passages

noun
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.
5. The advance of time.
6. The use of tight brushwork to link objects in separate spatial plains. Commonly seen in Cubist works.
7. A passageway or corridor.
8. An underground cavity, formed by water or falling rocks, which is much longer than it is wide.
9. The vagina.
10. The act of passing; movement across or through.
11. The right to pass from one place to another.
12. A fee paid for passing or for being conveyed between places.
13. Serial passage, a technique used in bacteriology and virology.
14. A gambling game for two players using three dice, in which the object is to throw a double over ten.
15. 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.
verb
1. To pass something, such as a pathogen or stem cell, through a host or medium.
2. To make a passage, especially by sea; to cross.
3. To execute a passage movement.

Example Sentences

The book contains several memorable passages about courage.
The cave system is full of narrow passages that are difficult to navigate.
She read aloud some beautiful passages from the poetry collection.
The ship sailed through dangerous passages between the islands.
Architects studied the ancient building’s passages for restoration plans.

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