passage, übersetzung im Collins English Cobuild & Thesaurus Wörterbuch

passage (passages plural )

1 n-count A passage is a long narrow space with walls or fences on both sides, which connects one place or room with another. (=passageway, corridor)
Harry stepped into the passage and closed the door behind him.

2 n-count A passage in a book, speech, or piece of music is a section of it that you are considering separately from the rest. (=excerpt, extract)
He reads a passage from Milton.

3 n-count A passage is a long narrow hole or tube in your body, which air or liquid can pass along.
...blocked nasal passages.

4 n-count A passage through a crowd of people or things is an empty space that allows you to move through them. (=way)
He cleared a passage for himself through the crammed streets...

5 n-uncount The passage of someone or something is their movement from one place to another.
Germany had not requested Franco's consent for the passage of troops through Spain...

6 n-uncount The passage of someone or something is their progress from one situation or one stage in their development to another. (=transition)
...the passage from school to college.

7 n-sing The passage of a period of time is its passing. (=passing)
An asset that increases in value with the passage of time.

8 n-count A passage is a journey by ship. (=crossing)
We'd arrived the day before after a 10-hour passage from Swansea.

9 n-uncount If you are granted passage through a country or area of land, you are given permission to go through it.
Mr Thomas would be given safe passage to and from Jaffna...