Synonyms of passages

passages

noun

plural of passage

1

as in routes

an established course for traveling from one place to another

the long passage down the Atlantic seaboard, around Cape Horn, and up the Pacific Coast to California

Synonyms & Similar Words

• routes
• paths
• roads
• approaches
• highways
• ways
• arteries
• avenues
• passageways
• walks
• trails
• thoroughfares
• roadways
• lanes
• tracks
• streets
• drives
• byways
• passes
• walkways
• boulevards
• rows
• turnpikes
• freeways
• expressways
• bypaths
• airways
• pikes
• waterways
• pike
• routeways
• laneways
• channels
• watercourses
• bypasses
• doorways
• doors
• portals
• traces
• gates
• hatches
• high roads
• gateways
• cycleways
• bikeways
• gats

2

as in trips

a going from one place to another usually of some distance

an arduous passage across the country

Synonyms & Similar Words

• trips
• expeditions
• journeys
• travels
• excursions
• treks
• flights
• tours
• errands
• voyages
• peregrinations
• rides
• cruises
• sails
• commutes
• jaunts
• commutations
• sorties
• drives
• outings
• sallies
• pilgrimages
• quests
• odysseys
• hops
• walks
• hikes
• junkets
• spins
• progresses
• tramps
• grand tours
• safaris
• walkabouts
• slogs

3

as in voyages

a journey over water in a vessel

the passage to Britain requires several days

Synonyms & Similar Words

• voyages
• cruises
• crossings
• sails

4

as in excerpts

a part taken from a longer work

the news report quoted a passage from the novel

Synonyms & Similar Words

• excerpts
• extracts
• quotations
• snippets
• clips
• contexts
• citations
• sound bites
• samples
• purple passages
• longueurs
• selections
• loci classici

5

as in processes

forward movement in time or place

a swift passage from mere liking to actual love

Synonyms & Similar Words

• processes
• progressions
• processions
• advances
• progresses
• advancements
• goings
• marches
• flows
• headways
• streams
• onrushes
• steps
• furtherances
• leaps
• currents
• comings
• approaches
• drifts
• fluxes
• ways
• arrivals
• jumps
• strides
• bounds
• advents
• momentums
• impetuses
• momenta

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• recesses
• regressions
• retreats
• recessions
• retrogressions
• reversals
• returns
• ebbs
• retractions
• backwashes
• reverses
• refluxes
• regresses
• turnarounds
• turnabouts
• about-faces

6

as in deaths

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

weary of this world, he looked forward to the next and sought passage with poison

Synonyms & Similar Words

• deaths
• fates
• demises
• passings
• graves
• curtains
• exits
• dooms
• dissolutions
• ends
• expirations
• sleeps
• deceases
• assassinations
• endings
• quietuses
• destructions
• martyrdoms
• suicides
• fatalities
• great divides
• casualties
• ruins
• expiries
• executions
• massacres
• killings
• exterminations
• self-slaughters
• annihilations
• self-destructions
• self-murders
• slaughters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• births
• lives
• existences
• nativities
• creations
• rises
• originations
• geneses