passage
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈpæsɪdʒ/
- And your passage to Rome, Arthur.
- pay for a passage
- book a passage
- safe passage
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Watch on YouTubeIt was easier to apply for assisted passage if you were a couple and you would get housing.
- It was easier to apply for assisted passage if you were a couple and you would get housing.
- And he says when booking passage on the Titanic, it's best to go first class.
- Some of high birth prostituted themselves to earn enough money to pay the passage for themselves and their families.
- So skilled tradesmen were promised free passage and Poyais and government contracts, bankers, doctors, civil servants, whole families signed up.
- Like the the ones that the Northwest Passage crew were lost on were called the Erebus and the Terror.
Examples
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I will grant safe passage for you and your girlfriend.
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I shall book you a passage back to London.
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I sold everything I owned to get my passage to come here, but my books...
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Good morning, Captain... I'm looking for passage to Rome, for both of us...
Fiction book (1993) -
I have taken a passage for Calais on Thursday next.
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Haas would have enough money to buy his passage out in another week or two.
Fiction book (1991) -
When her father had accumulated enough money to pay for her passage, he sent for her.
Academic text (1996) -
And he says when booking passage on the Titanic, it's best to go first class.
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And there's always first-class passage available.
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We booked passage on a cruise ship to explore the tropical islands.
Synonyms
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1.0
A path or road from one place to another
∞
1.0
A journey to a place and back for work or fun
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2.8
A journey on a large ship for pleasure that visits several places
46
1.4
A trip by boat for pleasure on the sea
35
3.7
A journey that moves goods or people from one place to another, often by ship
25
1.9
Going across something like a road, river, or sea
4
1.4
A planned trip by a ship or boat that leaves at a set time
2
6.7
A movement across a slope or area to go from one side to the other
1
1.4
A journey across the ocean by ship or boat
A route or way used to go from one place to another
Compounds
31
5.7
A ceremony that marks an important change in a person's life, for example becoming an adult
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7.5
A sea route through the Arctic along the north coast of North America that links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
1
5.6
A long water route along the coast for boats from Seattle to Skagway, protected by islands
- UK
1
7.2
A less-used hallway at the back of a building that people use for private or service access
1
7.3
A narrow sea channel between eastern Cuba and western Haiti that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Caribbean Sea
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6.9
A protected water route along the coast of southeastern Alaska used by ships and boats
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Etymology
Passage comes from the old verb pass and the French passer, meaning 'to pass' or 'cross'. So a sea passage is the trip of 'passing' across water from one place to another.