What is another word for passages?

Pronunciation: [pˈasɪd͡ʒɪz] (IPA)

Passages are the pathways that lead from one place to another. Synonyms for the word include hallway, corridor, aisle, pathway, channel, and route. These words are often used to describe physical passageways such as those found in buildings, tunnels, or underground trains. However, the word passage can also describe the movement of time or ideas from one place to another. In this context, synonyms include transfer, transition, progression, and movement. Whether referring to a physical or metaphoric passage, these synonyms convey the idea of movement, transitioning from one space, time, or idea to another.

What are the paraphrases for Passages?

Paraphrases are restatements of text or speech using different words and phrasing to convey the same meaning.
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What are the hypernyms for Passages?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Passages

How are such passages to be explained?
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
She reads 'The Ring and the Book' evenings, and wants to discuss it and read passages of it to me.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
Then they must pick up a pilot who would be likely to know these seas, and who is used to making difficult passages.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh

Famous quotes with Passages

  • Script for an actor is like a bible. You carry it with you, you read it over and over, you go to your passages.
    Cameron Diaz
  • As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
    Otto Dix
  • Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness. You may not remember too well.
    Charles Van Doren
  • We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
    Ken Follett
  • For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
    William H. Gass

Related words: ancient texts, passages of the bible, famous passages, biblical passages, inspirational passages, bible passages, famous quotations

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