passage

Other forms of passage

plural

passages·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about passage

What does passage mean?

passage means "the act of passing from one state or place to the next". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in passage?

passage has 2 syllables: pas-sage. The stress falls on "pas". In IPA it is /ˈpæsədʒ/.

What is another word for passage?

Close synonyms include transition, enactment, transit, musical passage, passageway. 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 passage a common word?

passage is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.