air passage

1. 1.

   a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)

   Synonymsair ductairway

   Broaderduct

   Narrowerregistersnorkelupcastventilation shaft

   Partsvent

Questions about air passage

What does air passage mean?

air passage means "a duct that provides ventilation (as in mines)".

What is another word for air passage?

Close synonyms include air duct, airway. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is air passage a common word?

air passage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.