passage
noun
- comparatively deep and narrow waterway affording a passage for a vessel
- section of text or music with particular meaning
- part of a path or journey
- an incident or episode
- official approval of a bill or act by a legislative body
- the advance of time
- an energetic trotting movement by a horse in dressage
- go by
- process of moving through something
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈpæsɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈpasɪd͡ʒ/ / /ˈpɛsəd͡ʒ/ / /ˈpasɑːʒ/
adj
Etymology: Borrowed into Middle English from Old French passage, from passer (“to pass”).
- Of a bird: Less than a year old but living on its own, having left the nest.
“Passage red-tailed hawks are preferred by falconers because these younger birds have not yet developed the adult behaviors which would make them more difficult to train.”
name
- Ellipsis of Passage West, Ireland.
noun
Etymology: From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
- 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
Etymology: From French passager, from Italian passeggiare.
- To execute a passage movement.
“After a spring or two, the horse passaged and reared, and lighting on a flat slab of rock which cropped up in the middle of the road, slipped sideways and fell with a loud crash […]”